International Symposium: Radio as Art
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LIGNA, Uebung im nichtbestimmungsmaeßigem Verweilen (Exercise in Lingering in a Manner Not in Accordance with the Regulations), Leipzig Main Railway Station, documentation of the Radioballett, 2003. Photo: Eiko Grimberg. |
RADIO AS ART: Concepts, Spaces, Practices: Radio Art between Media Reality and Art Reception
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Info
June 5-7, 2014 University Guest House Auf dem Teerhof 58 28199 Bremen
Contact
office.studienzentrum@weserburg.de
Radiokunst
+49 421 5983940
Address
http://www.radioasart.net
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne
Germany
International Symposium
RADIO AS ART: CONCEPTS, SPACES, PRACTICES: RADIO ART BETWEEN MEDIA REALITY AND ART RECEPTION (June 5-7, 2014)
Venue: University Guest House, Auf dem Teerhof 58, 28199 Bremen.
Radio As Art addresses the aesthetic and activist potential of radiophonic concepts in the age of Twitter and online communication. It opens multiple perspectives on radio's role of engaging performatively in social and political constellations, beyond its reception as a popular broadcasting medium. Acoustic signals, voice and language, sound collages, and experimental music have expanded the realm of radiophonic transmission to the status of multifaceted platforms for artistic strategies and networking. Beyond radio's apparatus-based structure to serve as a tool for global interconnection and collaborative processes, artists have employed it as a means of disseminating creative content, often implying tactical impulses for self-empowerment or resistive subtexts.
The symposium will provide an opportunity to situate radio art within the discourses of contemporary aesthetic orders and intermedial and transcultural art practices. In view of its historical emergence, the fluctuating nature of radiophonic art concepts will be explored within its institutional framework, between public broadcasting and today's exhibition culture, between archival documentation and ephemeral processes, between economic constraints and societal effects, between cultural and geopolitical transformations.
The symposium will be held in English.
Program
THURSDAY, June 5
Keynote Lecture by Hank Bull (Vancouver)
FRIDAY, June 6
Session 1: Radio Space
Session 2: Radio Art: Artistic Production and/or Political Practice
Session 3: Institutional Framing and Agency
SATURDAY, June 7
Session 4: Radio Art as Action
Session 5: Words–Sound–Music
Participants
Regine Beyer (Bremen), Biroul de Cercetari Melodramatice // The Bureau of Melodramatic Research (Irina Gheorghe and Alina Popa, Bucharest), Carolyn Birdsall (Amsterdam), Colin Black (Sydney), Hank Bull (Vancouver), Roksana Filipowska (Philadelphia), Ursula Frohne (Cologne), Anna Friz (Montreal/Berlin), Philip Glahn (Philadelphia), Heidi Grundmann (Vienna), Andreas Hagelüken (Berlin), Ralf Homann (Berlin), Jee-Hae Kim (Cologne), Ania Mauruschat (Basel), Sibylle Omlin (Sierre), Vito Pinto (Berlin), Anna Ramos (Barcelona), Franziska Rauh (Bremen), Lauren Rosati (New York), Sarah Rothe (Bremen), Nathalie Singer (Weimar), Anne Thurmann-Jajes (Bremen), Kai van Eikels (Berlin), Sarah Washington (Ürzig), Claudia Wegener/Continental Drift (Cologne), Elisabeth Zimmermann (Vienna)
Presented by:
Centre for Artists' Publications at Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
Universität Bremen, Bremen
Universität zu Köln, Cologne
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
For complete details, live-conference stream, and to register, please visit: www.radioasart.net.
