Martinican Poetry Will Be Cannibalistic or Will Not Be
a Lecture by Adama Keïta
Theory Stairs
Watch the livestream at https://stream.rietveldacademie.nl/
Wording from Martinican activist and writer Suzanne Roussi Césaire, this participative lecture by Adama Keïta is an exploration of language cannibalism and anti-doudouism politics through afro-caribbean surrealism and poetry. Asserting resistance through non-linearity and imagination.
Adama Keïta, an Indo-Guadeloupean, and Senegalese curator, writer, and researcher raised in Martinique. She is currently pursuing a Master's in Critical Studies at Sandberg Instituut where her thesis explores Martinican ( nation language ) as a tool for liberation, focusing on sonic/somatic practices and linguistic cannibalism. She is the Founding Director of Nianiba, a Martinique-based (im)material space, functioning as an artistic and cultural-research lab. Nianiba’s itinerant approach extends across borders with cultural-research projects in the Caribbean, Latin America and the African continent
From a curatorial paradigm, she specializes in sound, sculpture/installation performance art, political education and rooted pedagogy. Her written and spoken word practice blends Caribbean surrealism, vegetative poetry and responsiveness.
Since April 2024, Adama Keïta has been a guest lecturer at the Fine Art School of Paris, and more specifically for Julien Creuzet’s students.