Installation view, Bonniers Konsthall 2022.
Radio Brown Atlantis
- 8 channel sound 90 mins
- Additional sound 50:21 min.
- Cyanotype, turmeric, vinegar, salt and tea on silk organza, speaker components, sand, gold paint and glitter, sugar cane extract, burnt sugar cane, clay pot, aroma diffuser, photocopy paper, speaker and speaker stand, brass thread, curtain hooks, screen print on vellum, algraphy and screen print on lokta paper, plummet
2022
Ayesha Hameed with Christopher Cozier, Keyna Eleison, Natasha Ginwala, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Manuela Moscoso, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Pablo José Ramirez, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Khal Torabully.
Radio Brown Atlantis is a radio show broadcast on Movement Radio in Athens and Radio alHara in Bethlehem, that invites guests to explore the entanglements between Brown and Black people from the African diaspora and South Asia, displaced through enslavement and indenture, and connected through experiences of oceanic colonial routes. Using storytelling, music and poetry, Radio Brown Atlantis reimagines their stories and histories underwater, in an Atlantis at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and the subaquatic ecologies and life forms surrounding them below.
Radio Brown Atlantis, the exhibition, is a collaboration between the host, Ayesha Hameed, with guests from the first season who together translate the episodes into a series of scores, knowing that a Brown Atlantis is cartographically unmappable and that the sonics of a radio show cannot be fully made visible.
Radio Brown Atlantis airs on Movement Radio, Athens and Radio alHara, Bethlehem. Thank you to The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for supporting the production of this work.
Commissioned by Bonniers Konsthall 2022
Radio Brown Atlantis is dedicated to Dr Zohra Husaini
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Radio Brown Atlantis is speculative at its heart, bringing histories of colonialism and indentureship underwater. This makes possible other kinds of stories and other timelines. A book as a radio show means this all happens in the realm of the sonic, which has its own temporalities, embodiments, ghosts, silences, grief, enervations, collectivities. The sound of the sea at its margins.
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It feels like the drums are another protagonist in our conversation.
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