Son[i]a #422
Tania Safura Adam
Tania Safura Adam (b. Maputo, Mozambique, 1979) is a researcher, writer and curator who carries out social research that spills over into the artistic sphere. Through her work, she introduces narratives and compiles and shares macro and micro stories of blackness in the Iberian Peninsula.
As founder of Radio África—a platform for critical thought and the dissemination of black cultures—and creator of the research project (and potential archive) Black Spain. Journey Towards Blackness in Space-Time, Tania generates spaces of complexity in which to (re)write black history in Spain. She draws on diverse sources such as the colonial archive, literature, music, and the domestic sphere, and uses microhistory and active listening as working methodologies to reinstate the narratives of historically marginalised and silenced voices. Her practice often takes the form of radio, conversation, museography, sound, and sculpture—understood as living, complementary tools for the construction of counternarratives.
In this podcast, Tania Safura Adam takes us inside her research processes and strategies to revive the individual and collective memories of blackness in Spain: an urgent and tenacious writing operation based on fragments that are often scattered and disjointed. The public dissemination of these silenced and ignored narratives has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, and in this discomfort lies the potential for transformation. We also talk about gaps in the archive, about potential archives, and about what it means to take responsibility for this. And on a more personal note, about what motherhood and child rearing in the diaspora means for her and for many other women.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
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