The Quick + The Brave

In this episode, Marie-Anne speaks with Visual Artist Antonio Jose Guzman.

One half of creative duo Electric Dub Station, Antonio’s creative journey has its roots in the punk scene in his native Panama before moving to The Netherlands and embracing the 90s warehouse rave culture as a photographer.

Together with Serbian Painter and Textile Artist Iva Jankovic, Electric Dub Station explores the relationship between creolisation, migration, decolonising textiles and the alchemy of indigo, a sacred dye with deep significance in indigenous communities from West Africa to South America to India.

The duo has exhibited at biennials worldwide including Dakar, Havana, Venice and Panama as well as museums and festivals from Miami to Amsterdam.

Antonio talks anti establishment, finding advocacy in the arts and Electric Dub Station’s current offering, Concrete Roots, showing at Liverpool Biennial until 14 September 2025.

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Follow Antonio Jose Guzman: https://www.instagram.com/guzmanvisualdiary/

Follow Iva Jankovic: https://www.instagram.com/iva_nije_tu/

Follow Liverpool Biennial: https://www.instagram.com/liverpoolbiennial/

Learn more about Electric Dub Station: https://www.aguzman.com/

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In this episode Marie-Anne speaks with Writer and Director, Jon Madge (they/them).

An audio sitcom enthusiast from South London, Jon is a life-long student of the creative process. A deep love for reading was further ignited as a child by BBC comedies and dramas, setting their imagination alight.

Jon now channels this passion for storytelling and theatre into Keeping The Zoo, an audio sitcom based on their time working in a petting zoo.

Due for release this summer, Keeping the Zoo is performed by cast members from Downstage Left, an international theatre group in Amsterdam bringing characters to life in front of a live audience.

Jon talks simple yet elaborate sound effects, finding community through performance and the value of holding onto creative outlets.

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Follow Keeping The Zoo: https://www.instagram.com/keepingthezoo

Learn more about Keeping The Zoo: https://keepingthezoopodcast.com

Follow Downstage Left: https://www.instagram.com/downstageleft_amsterdam

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In this episode Marie-Anne speaks with Artist and Meditation Guide, Malika Ali Harding (she/her).
Hailing from Cleveland Ohio, multi-hyphenate Malika combines a deep love for writing, filmmaking, curating, photography, sound and performance, creating where – in her words – the sacred meets the profane.
Malika shares the inspiration behind The Way Our Tongues Move, a series of performed portraits merging the micro and the macro to honour the legacy of her favourite uncle David – one of a generation of young gay men across the United States in the 80s and 90s who lost their lives to the HIV Aids epidemic.
Malika talks digging into family archives, ancestral storytelling and her first experience diving into drag.
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Learn more about The Way Our Tongues Move: https://www.malikaaliharding.com/
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In this episode, Marie-Anne speaks with the Founder of MOTORMOND, Musoke Nalwoga (she/her).
The Ugandan born, Amsterdam-based curator, researcher and writer Musoke takes her passion for Black queer artistic production from across the African continent and diaspora and distills it all into MOTORMOND – a pan-African non-profit art gallery and community space in the Dutch capital.
Musoke talks Black queer liberation, her journey to become a curator, the artists from the community who inspire her and MOTORMOND’s first exhibition at contemporary photography fair, Unseen, featuring ‘Errant Black Girlhoods’ a series by Nella Ngingo.
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Masha Svyatogor talks about using her visual art to portray eccentricities and paradoxes of the everyday life in her homeland, Belarus. We learn about her collages combining elements from different historical and contemporary sources. Follow Masha on IG: @svyatogormasha 

Masha is one of five recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2021 who we spoke with at Unfair22. The Seed Awards support emerging cultural practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe dedicated to addressing societal themes and empowering their communities.

Follow the journeys of the Seed Awardees with the Inspired Flight series on Instagram: @princeclausfund and @thequickandthebrave   

We interviewed Masha at Unfair22  (@unfair_amsterdam) a contemporary art festival, where she was one of the five Seed Awardees invited to exhibit their work.       

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Recorded in French, this podcast features Aristote Mago, a visual artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. We discuss his work themed around the climate emergency, queer expression and the impact of multinationals trading in Africa. A transcript is available in English at www.thequickandthebrave.com   

Follow Artistote on IG @aristotemagofficiel  

Aristote is one of five recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2021 who we spoke with at Unfair22. The Seed Awards support emerging cultural practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe dedicated to addressing societal themes and empowering their communities.

Follow the journeys of the Seed Awardees with the Inspired Flight series on Instagram: @princeclausfund and @thequickandthebrave   

We interviewed Aristote at Unfair22  (@unfair_amsterdam) a contemporary art festival, where he was one of the five Seed Awardees invited to exhibit their work.       

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Sumi Anjuman is a visual artist and activist from Bangladesh, exploring the status of women in a conservative society and the LGBTQI+ community in her country. She gives insight on the reality of oppression both groups experience through her photography.  

Follow Sumi on IG: @sumi_anjuman  

Sumi is one of five recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2021 who we spoke with at Unfair22. The Seed Awards support emerging cultural practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe dedicated to addressing societal themes and empowering their communities.

Follow the journeys of the Seed Awardees with the Inspired Flight series on Instagram: @princeclausfund and @thequickandthebrave   

We interviewed Sumi at Unfair22  (@unfair_amsterdam) a contemporary art festival, where she was one of the five Seed Awardees invited to exhibit their work. 

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Sallisa Rosa is an artist representing Brazil's indigenous communities. Through photography, video and participatory work she explores the themes of territory and nature from the perspective of indigenous communities. Follow Sallisa on IG @sallisarosa 

Sallisa is one of five recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2021 who we spoke with at Unfair22. The Seed Awards support emerging cultural practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe dedicated to addressing societal themes and empowering their communities.

Follow the journeys of the Seed Awardees with the Inspired Flight series on Instagram: @princeclausfund and @thequickandthebrave   

We interviewed Sallisa Rosa at Unfair22  (@unfair_amsterdam) a contemporary art festival, where she was one of the five Seed Awardees invited to exhibit their work.         

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A visual artist from Brazil, Jota started to paint as a high school student who depicts the reality of life as a young Black man in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in his work.  Follow Jota on IG: @explicito___  

Jota is one of five recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2021 who we spoke with at Unfair22. The Seed Awards support emerging cultural practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe dedicated to addressing societal themes and empowering their communities.

Follow the journeys of the Seed Awardees with the Inspired Flight series on Instagram: @princeclausfund and @thequickandthebrave   

We interviewed Jota at Unfair22  (@unfair_amsterdam) a contemporary art festival in Amsterdam, where he was one of the five Seed Awardees invited to exhibit their work. 

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Welcome to the first episode of The Quinsy + Axmed Show on The Quick + The Brave. 

Ahead of Keti Koti, hosts Quinsy Gario and Axmed Maxamed speak with one of an up and coming political voice in St Maarten, Solange Ludmila Duncan MP. 

Our hosts talk with Ludmila about the importance of 1 July as a day of commemoration, decolonisation and the ways in which the Kingdom of the Netherlands relates to the repercussions of slavery and colonisation. 

Plus Quinsy and Axmed get into their own mix of Q and As: Quotidian and Analog news, Asterisks (things that make you go ‘Hmmm?’) and Qualifieds (things that get the Quinsy + Axmed seal of approval).

A transcript of the show will be available soon at www.thequickandthebrave.com.

Had a listen and want more background on the topics covered? Hit up these links:

Bonaire Human Rights: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJj8r_F0_m/

Keti Koti will be spread over two days this year in Arnhem (Dutch): https://www.gelderlander.nl/arnhem-e-o/keti-koti-wordt-deze-maand-herdacht-en-gevierd-in-arnhem-ook-deze-stad-heeft-sporen-van-slavernij~a1b8988f/

Member of parliament Solange Ludmila Duncan will champion legislation that will make Community Councils public bodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Em12RHMEss&t=505s

Passages from the book Aftershocks of Disaster: https://twitter.com/axmedamiinmax/status/1394716259221135361

Sint Maarten celebrates Emancipation Day: https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/sint-maarten-celebrates-emancipation-day

Sint Maarten lawmakers filed a petition with a U.N. special rapporteur on racism accusing the Netherlands of “racial discrimination” and “violations of international rights.”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-sint-maarten-netherlands/2021/03/10/d2f58bea-80e9-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html

National Ombudsman says to the Dutch government, that failing water supply on St. Eustatius unacceptable: https://www.theioi.org/ioi-news/current-news/national-ombudsman-failing-water-supply-on-st-eustatius-unacceptable 

St. Maarten’s Intangible Cultural Heritage: http://www.sintmaartengov.org/government/ECYS/Pages/Intangible-Cultural-Heritage-Inventory.aspx

UEFA tries to claim the rainbow colours mean something they don't mean: https://twitter.com/axmedamiinmax/status/1407665219804012544

Black S*x Workers conference organised by The Black S*x Workers collective: https://www.blacksexworkercollective.org/home2

Slavery in Utrecht: https://twitter.com/NancyJouwe/status/1406908518670782465