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Tania Adam

Curator, researcher, and founder-editor of Radio Africa, a platform for critical thought and diffusion of Black arts and cultures, her areas of research are Black diasporas, movements, forms of resistance, and popular African music.

She was curator of “Microhistories of the Diaspora: ‘Embodied’ Experiences of Female Dispersion” (La Virreina, 2018-2019), “Blue Black Futures” (MACBA, 20121-2022), “A Requiem for Humanity” (La Casa Encendida, 2024), and "The Black Files: Fragments of an Anti-Colonial Metropolis” (Biennal Manifesta, 2024), as well as being responsible for the programme of activities for “Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design” (CCCB, 2016).

Moreover, she is author of the essay Voces negras: Una historia oral de las músicas populares africanas Vol. 1 (Black Voices; An Oral History of Popular African Music, Vol. 1), and is currently director of the research project “Black Spain: A Space-Time Journey to Negritude” (Museo Reina Sofía, MACBA, Artium, CCCB, IVAM), the seminar “Black Iberian Studies” of the Study Programme of the Museo Reina Sofía, in addition to presenting the “Radio Africa” programme on the betevé television channel.

@TaniaSafuraAdam

Update: 22 January 2025

Contents

The Mirror of Racism

Tania Adam, Elsa Dorlin, Pastora Filigrana, Daura Mangara, Esther (Mayoko) Ortega and Mostafà Shaimi

Ideas to resist

Víctor Recort, Berta Gómez Santo Tomás, Albert Lloreta, João França, Joana Moll, Tania Adam, Lucas Ramada Prieto, Toni Navarro, Míriam Hatibi

Radical Creative Practices

Excerpt from the Performance «Africaman Original» followed by a discussion featuring Qudus Onikeku and Aída Bueno

Has participated in

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Re-Membered Imaginaries: The Moving-Image Screen as a Decolonial Site

“Ancestral Invocations”, with Tania Adam and Adeline Flaun

A proposal of staging the recovery of the Black Files

The Mirror of Racism

Ear and heart. Listening devices

Podcasting workshop with Radio Africa and Xarxa de Ràdios Comunitàries de Barcelona

Radical Creative Practices

Performance of «Africaman Original» with a discussion featuring Qudus Onikeku and Aída Bueno

The exhibition as seen by...

Eloy Fernández Porta, Bel Olid, Najat El Hachmi, Miquel Missé and Tania Adam

Conversation with NoViolet Bulawayo, Najat El Hachmi and Jane Lazarre, moderated by Tania Adam

Reflections on Writing: An Approximation from Curative Narratives

The new correspondents

Conversation with Tania Adam, Xavier Aldekoa, Samuel Aranda and Gemma Parellada. Moderated by Pere Ortín