Episode 02
Brown Atlantis Radio feat. Christopher Cozier
Episode Date: 4 December 2020
Guest: Christopher Cozier
Listen to EpisodeIn this episode we visit Christopher Cozier in Trinidad. We talk drums: tassa drums used in the Shia commemoration of Hosay or Muharram in Trinidad; about how music travels between the Caribbean and Central America; the radial journeys of Garifuna music; soca, Chutney and Bhojpuri music; and finally, the ocean and desert, and how they smell.
Christopher Cozier is a Trinidadian visual artist whose mediums range from notebook drawings to video installations. His exhibitions include “Infinite Island” at The Brooklyn Museum (2007), “Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic” at Tate Liverpool (2010), “Entanglements” at the Broad Museum, Michigan (2015), “Relational Undercurrents” at MOLAA, LA (2017), and “The Sea is History,” at the Historisk museum, Oslo (2019). Cozier participated in the public program of tenth Berlin Biennial and has exhibited in the fifth and seventh Havana Biennials and the fourteenth Sharjah Biennial (UAE). Works are currently in the 3rd Industrial Arts Biennial, Croatia and in “one month after being known in that island” at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger. In 2021 the artist will participate in the 11th Liverpool Biennial. Co-director of Alice Yard and a Prince Claus Award laureate, he lives and works in Trinidad.
