Discussions with Noémi Michel #5
As part of a ten-episode podcast programme developed in collaboration with the Lausanne-based webradio Radio 40 and the researcher and art historian Noémi Michel.
The full podcast can be listened to online or read (in excerpts) in our magazine Meute #2.
Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB), 730 (A Tribute to DJ Midas), 2025, CALM – Centre d'Art La Meute, photo : Théo Dufloo.
« I feel that we had a golden era in the 90s, in the US, of Black television. I would watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Living single, Martin. I know almost every episode by heart. It’s really just about that joy of seeing Black people in tv in roles of empowerment, in roles of community. I gravitated to both Living Single and Martin, because even though they lived in cities where you would never leave your door open, like Detroit and New-York, for some reasons, their doors were always open and their friends were always barging in and making jokes. I just really adored that. It was a fantasy world to be able to imagine, that there would be that type of safety in relationships, in friendships specifically.»
Rashayla Marie Brown in conversation with Noémi Michel
The ten-episode podcast programme was made possible thanks to the generous support of Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Foundation for Radio and Culture (FSRC), in collaboration with Radio 40 and researcher and art historian Noémi Michel.