Invitation to the Species
by Invitation to the Species
The word “tamaas” in Arabic means “connection." Since 2004, Tamaas has worked transnationally among various artistic disciplines in the U.S., Morocco, and France. Through our new branch, Earth Arts Justice, comes Invitation to the Species, a podcast series in which we ask guest speakers to think about what their grandparents and parents’ ways of living bring to the present moment, and how their own work connects in specific ways to collective eco-systems and our climate. Invited guests respond through interviews, readings and performances.
Episodes
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Allison Cobb: Positive Twist
The conversation you’re about to hear, “The Positive Twist,” was held between Allison Cobb, Sarah Riggs and Jérémy Robert. Cobb starts by reading the preface to Plastic: An Autobiography, the book she published with Nightboat Books in 2021, where she describes plastic as the epitome of the...
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Youmna Chlala and Mónica de la Torre: The tenses of cultural differences
The conversation you’re about to hear, “The Tenses of Cultural Differences,” was held between Monica de la Torre, Youmna Chlala, Sarah Riggs, and Alisha Mascarenhas in April 2021. Monica and Youmna interrogate the past to investigate complex present times and simultaneous states of reality. They...
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Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su: What kind of language are we left with?
The conversation you’re about to hear, “What kind of language are we left with” was held between Mirene Arsanios and Celina Su, and recorded in February 2021. With Mirene and Celina, both “motherless mothers without mother tongues,” we discuss the lineages of their languages, liminal…
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Lois Elaine Griffith (4/4): Art is Essential Work
Punctuated by the sounds of tools, helicopters, and sirens in her Fort Greene garden, Lois Elaine Griffith discusses with Alisha Mascarenhas what it means to create, repair, and build community within and beyond the era of COVID-19. Lois considers the intersectionality of her father’s...
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Lois Elaine Griffith (3/4): Shared Vulnerability
Punctuated by the sounds of tools, helicopters, and sirens in her Fort Greene garden, Lois Elaine Griffith discusses with Alisha Mascarenhas what it means to create, repair, and build community within and beyond the era of COVID-19. Lois considers the intersectionality of her father’s...
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Lois Elaine Griffith (2/4): Art as Protest
Punctuated by the sounds of tools, helicopters, and sirens in her Fort Greene garden, Lois Elaine Griffith discusses with Alisha Mascarenhas what it means to create, repair, and build community within and beyond the era of COVID-19. Lois considers the intersectionality of her father’s...
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Lois Elaine Griffith (1/4): Community of Presence and Writing
Punctuated by the sounds of tools, helicopters, and sirens in her Fort Greene garden, Lois Elaine Griffith discusses with Alisha Mascarenhas what it means to create, repair, and build community within and beyond the era of COVID-19. Lois considers the intersectionality of her father’s...
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Safaa Fathy (4/4): Language
Sarah Riggs and Alia Al-Sabi invite Safaa Fathy to discuss displacement, language, feminism, revolution, and ecosystems in this generous talk hosted by Earth Arts Justice. Poet, filmmaker and philosopher Safaa Fathy was born in the south of Egypt where the sand, the water, and the green fields...
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Safaa Fathy (3/4): Revolution and Hope
Sarah Riggs and Alia Al-Sabi invite Safaa Fathy to discuss displacement, language, feminism, revolution, and ecosystems in this generous talk hosted by Earth Arts Justice. Poet, filmmaker and philosopher Safaa Fathy was born in the south of Egypt where the sand, the water, and the green fields...
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Safaa Fathy (2/4): Environmentalism and Race
Sarah Riggs and Alia Al-Sabi invite Safaa Fathy to discuss displacement, language, feminism, revolution, and ecosystems in this generous talk hosted by Earth Arts Justice. Poet, filmmaker and philosopher Safaa Fathy was born in the south of Egypt where the sand, the water, and the green fields...
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Safaa Fathy (1/4): Never Arriving
Sarah Riggs and Alia Al-Sabi invite Safaa Fathy to discuss displacement, language, feminism, revolution, and ecosystems in this generous talk hosted by Earth Arts Justice. Poet, filmmaker and philosopher Safaa Fathy was born in the south of Egypt where the sand, the water, and the green fields...
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Cecilia Vicuña (3/7): Discovering Forgotten Histories
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (7/7): Connection
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (6/7): Reinventing Education
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (5/7): A Color that Doesn't Exist
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (4/7): Improvisation and Trust
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (2/7): Art and Climate: Erasing Our Forgetfulness
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Cecilia Vicuña (1/7): Growing up with the Land
Sarah and Omar join Cecilia Vicuña as she travels through ancestral memory via tenderly-told stories of her childhood in Chile. From a young age, Vicuña came to define solidarity as the combination of love and creativity occuring in kinship, and so deeply mourns the connection lost to the…
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Jabari Brisport (5/5): End of Capitalism through Collaboration
In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient...
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Jabari Brisport (4/5): We Need Teachers of Color
In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient...
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Jabari Brisport (3/5): Climate and Social Justice
In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient...
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Jabari Brisport (2/5): All Politics Start Local
In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient...
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Jabari Brisport (1/5): Learning from our Parents
In which Sarah asks the Earth Arts Justice lead question about continuity between Jabari and grandparents, and parents. And Jabari speaks of his father, who is an immigrant, but unlike most politician’s tales of predecessors who overcome odds, Jabari speaks eloquently of his father’s resilient...
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Anne Waldman (1/7): Ethos of Thrift and Art
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (2/7): Communal Needs
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (3/7): Voicing the Caged Manatee
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (5/7): The Antithesis Reality
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (4/7): Change Starts with a Broken Heart
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (6/7): The Role of Outrider Poets
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Anne Waldman (7/7): Politicians and Poets
Anne Waldman gives an oral history, a glimpse into her personal archive that has shaped her artistic and activist life. She outlines a politics that imagines a new way of being together that might come from the suspension of everyday living this pandemic has brought upon us. Anne speaks of our...
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Françoise Vergès (5/5): Future
Political thinker and activist Françoise Vergès leads “Decolonize the Arts,” a collective whose aim is to question and critique the art world’s white-framed structures and increasing disparity. In conversation with Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, co-leaders of Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice, Vergès...
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Françoise Vergès (4/5): Decolonizing the Arts
Political thinker and activist Françoise Vergès leads “Decolonize the Arts,” a collective whose aim is to question and critique the art world’s white-framed structures and increasing disparity. In conversation with Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, co-leaders of Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice, Vergès...
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Françoise Vergès (3/5): Race is Forbidden in France
Political thinker and activist Françoise Vergès leads “Decolonize the Arts,” a collective whose aim is to question and critique the art world’s white-framed structures and increasing disparity. In conversation with Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, co-leaders of Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice, Vergès...
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Françoise Vergès (2/5): Tracing the Symptoms of Colonization
Political thinker and activist Françoise Vergès leads “Decolonize the Arts,” a collective whose aim is to question and critique the art world’s white-framed structures and increasing disparity. In conversation with Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, co-leaders of Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice, Vergès...
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Françoise Vergès (1/5): Growing Up Off the Cartography
Political thinker and activist Françoise Vergès leads “Decolonize the Arts,” a collective whose aim is to question and critique the art world’s white-framed structures and increasing disparity. In conversation with Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada, co-leaders of Tamaas/Earth Arts Justice, Vergès...
About this show
The word “tamaas” in Arabic means “connection." Since 2004, Tamaas has worked transnationally among various artistic disciplines in the U.S., Morocco, and France. Through our new branch, Earth Arts Justice, comes Invitation to the Species, a podcast series in which we ask guest speakers to think about what their grandparents and parents’ ways of living bring to the present moment, and how their own work connects in specific ways to collective eco-systems and our climate. Invited guests respond through interviews, readings and performances.
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