blaxxRADIO
blaxxRADIO is a podcast platform from blaxTARLINES KUMASI, featuring sonic experiments and interventions such as live music, open mic events, interviews, recordings, and storytelling. It spans Ghanaian genres like Adadamu, Kologo, Borboorbor, Nwomkro, and Palmwine Highlife, and includes improvisational music sessions, curated playlists, and spoken word. The content for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will be sourced from Kumasi, Venice, Kampala, and other locations across five continents. The platform also includes a physical setup at the Arsenale in Venice with portable audio devices and a music recording studio called "The Shrine" on KNUST campus.
Episodes
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 3 || Part 1 : The Curatorial Archival Complex: Geopolitics, Unedited History, and Archival Metabolism
Episode Title: The Curatorial Archival Complex: Geopolitics, Unedited History, and Archival Metabolism Season: 2 | Episode: 3 (Parts 1 & 2) Episode Description In this two-part episode of blaxxRADIO, curator and scholar Dr Doreen Mende delivers a wide-ranging presentation on the intersection of curatorial practice, geopolitical history, and archival theory. Hosted at blaxTARLINES KUMASI, KNUST,
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 2 || Part 2 : Creative Coalescing: Artists of KNUST and Ghana's Contemporary Art Revolution (ACASA 2017)
blaxxRADIO Season 2. Episode 1 (Parts 1 & 2) Creative Coalescing: Artists of KNUST and Ghana's Contemporary Art Revolution (ACASA 2017) Episode Description: In this episode, we revisit audio from the 17th ACASA Triennial Symposium hosted at the University of Ghana, Legon. Featuring the blaxTARLINES team and dynamic artists affiliated with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 2 || Part 1 : Creative Coalescing: Artists of KNUST and Ghana's Contemporary Art Revolution (ACASA 2017)
blaxxRADIO Season 2. Episode 1 (Parts 1 & 2) Creative Coalescing: Artists of KNUST and Ghana's Contemporary Art Revolution (ACASA 2017) Episode Description: In this episode, we revisit audio from the 17th ACASA Triennial Symposium hosted at the University of Ghana, Legon. Featuring the blaxTARLINES team and dynamic artists affiliated with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 1 || Part 3 : African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk)
Episode Title: African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk) Season 2 | Episode: 1 (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Episode Description: In this three-part season premiere of blaxxRADIO, we present the seminal Founders' Day Art Talk delivered by artist-philosopher Prof. kąrî'kạchä seid'ou at blaxTARLINES KUMASI. Tracing the origins and intellectu
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 1 || Part 2 : African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk)
Episode Title: African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk) Season 2 | Episode: 1 (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Episode Description: In this three-part season premiere of blaxxRADIO, we present the seminal Founders' Day Art Talk delivered by artist-philosopher Prof. kąrî'kạchä seid'ou at blaxTARLINES KUMASI. Tracing the origins and intellectu
blaxxRADIO || Season 2 || Episode 1 || Part 1 : African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk)
Episode Title: African Unity by Other Means: Emancipatory Art, the Undercommons and Radical Pedagogy (Founders' Day Art Talk) Season 2 | Episode: 1 (Parts 1, 2 & 3) Episode Description: In this three-part season premiere of blaxxRADIO, we present the seminal Founders' Day Art Talk delivered by artist-philosopher Prof. kąrî'kạchä seid'ou at blaxTARLINES KUMASI. Tracing the origins and intellectu
Art Talk || Episode 05: Godfried Donkor: On African Presence in Venice and more
Episode 05: Godfried Donkor: On African Presence in Venice and more About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we are joined by the internationally acclaimed painter and pioneer of African contemporary art, Godfried Donkor. Together with his interlocutors, Dr. Adjo Daiki Apodey Kisser, Dr. Bernard Akoi-Jackson, and Kwaku Boafo Kissiedu (Castro), we trace Donkor's expansive jour
Ama Ata Aidoo's CHANGES || a blaxxRADIO Play for the 61st Venice Biennale (Biennale Arte 2026) || Part 4
RADIO PLAY DESCRIPTION: CHANGES: A Radio Play Based on the novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Produced for blaxTARLINES by the Legon Prɛkɛsɛ Theatre Group About This Production You are listening to a special radio adaptation of Ama Ata Aidoo's seminal novel, Changes: A Love Story. This production reimagines Aidoo's complex exploration of African womanhood, marriage, and the tensions between tradition and mo
Ama Ata Aidoo's CHANGES || a blaxxRADIO Play for the 61st Venice Biennale (Biennale Arte 2026) || Part 3
RADIO PLAY DESCRIPTION: CHANGES: A Radio Play Based on the novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Produced for blaxTARLINES by the Legon Prɛkɛsɛ Theatre Group About This Production You are listening to a special radio adaptation of Ama Ata Aidoo's seminal novel, Changes: A Love Story. This production reimagines Aidoo's complex exploration of African womanhood, marriage, and the tensions between tradition and mo
Ama Ata Aidoo's CHANGES || a blaxxRADIO Play for the 61st Venice Biennale (Biennale Arte 2026) || Part 2
RADIO PLAY DESCRIPTION: CHANGES: A Radio Play Based on the novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Produced for blaxTARLINES by the Legon Prɛkɛsɛ Theatre Group About This Production You are listening to a special radio adaptation of Ama Ata Aidoo's seminal novel, Changes: A Love Story. This production reimagines Aidoo's complex exploration of African womanhood, marriage, and the tensions between tradition and mo
Ama Ata Aidoo's CHANGES || a blaxxRADIO Play for the 61st Venice Biennale (Biennale Arte 2026) || Part 1
RADIO PLAY DESCRIPTION: CHANGES: A Radio Play Based on the novel by Ama Ata Aidoo Produced for blaxTARLINES by the Legon Prɛkɛsɛ Theatre Group About This Production You are listening to a special radio adaptation of Ama Ata Aidoo's seminal novel, Changes: A Love Story. This production reimagines Aidoo's complex exploration of African womanhood, marriage, and the tensions between tradition and mo
Art Talk Episode 04 || Part 2: On Asante Folklore, Art, and Autobiography
Episode 04: On Asante Folklore, Art, and Autobiography (Part 1) A Conversation between Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Dr. Agyeman Ossei (Dota) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we are joined by the multi-hyphenate artist and scholar Dr. Agyeman Ossei (widely known as Dota) for an illuminating look into his prolific yet "silent" art practice. We trace his journey from his ea
Art Talk Episode 04 || Part 1: On Asante Folklore, Art, and Autobiography
Episode 04: On Asante Folklore, Art, and Autobiography (Part 1) A Conversation between Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Dr. Agyeman Ossei (Dota) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we are joined by the multi-hyphenate artist and scholar Dr. Agyeman Ossei (widely known as Dota) for an illuminating look into his prolific yet "silent" art practice. We trace his journey from his ea
Art Talk Episode 03 || Part 2: Aboso Glass Factory, Photography, Sounds, and Lights
A Conversation between Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) and Selasi Awusi Sosu (Part 2) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we join artist and researcher Selasi Awusi Sosu for an expansive look into the evolution of her practice. We trace her journey from her formative years at KNUST to her deep fascination with the Aboso Glass Factory, a site of industrial memory established b
Art Talk Episode 03 || Part 1: Aboso Glass Factory, Photography, Sounds, and Lights
Episode 03: A Conversation between Selasi Awusi Sosu and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh on Aboso Glass Factory, Photography, Sounds, and Lights (Part 1) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we join artist and researcher Selasi Awusi Sosu for an expansive look into the evolution of her practice. We trace her journey from her formative years at KNUST to her deep fascination with the
Art Talk Episode 02 || Part 2: Artistic Evolutions A Conversation between Dr. Kelvin Haizel and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB)
Episode 02: Artistic Evolutions (Part 2) A Conversation between Dr. Kelvin Haizel and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we dive into the processes and evolution of artist Dr. Kelvin Haizel. This conversation was originally recorded in 2017 during the landmark blaxTARLINES KUMASI exhibition, "Orderly Disorderly." The conversation explores the
Art Talk Episode 02 || Part 1: Artistic Evolutions. A Conversation between Dr. Kelvin Haizel and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB)
Episode 02: Artistic Evolutions (Part 1) A Conversation between Dr. Kelvin Haizel and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) About This Episode In this installment of the Art Talk series, we dive into the processes and evolution of artist Dr. Kelvin Haizel. This conversation was originally recorded in 2017 during the landmark blaxTARLINES KUMASI exhibition, "Orderly Disorderly." The conversation explores the
Art Talk Episode 01 || Part 2: A Conversation between Prof. Ablade Glover and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) Part 2
About This Episode A Conversation between Prof. Ablade Glover and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) Part 2 In the premiere episode of blaxxRADIO, we sit down with luminary Ghanaian artist, Prof. Ablade Glover, for a deep dive into his career. This interview took place in 2017 during blaxTARLINES KUMASI's exhibition titled "Orderly Disorderly," which paid homage to Prof. Glover's lifework. Profile of In
Art Talk Episode 01 || Part 1: A Conversation between Prof. Ablade Glover and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB)
About This Episode A Conversation between Prof. Ablade Glover and Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (IUB) Part 1 In the premiere episode of blaxxRADIO, we sit down with luminary Ghanaian artist, Prof. Ablade Glover, for a deep dive into his career. This interview took place in 2017 during blaxTARLINES KUMASI's exhibition titled "Orderly Disorderly," which paid homage to Prof. Glover's lifework. Profile of In
