November 14, 2005
Radio_Copernicus
Talking Back to Radio
Talking Back to Radio--Radio als Zuhörer Artyści zmieniają radio: Workshops, Installations, Interventions, Netperformances, Concerts and Symposium in Wroclaw; December 6th - December 11th, 2005.
SYMPOSIUM: “Radio – one speaks without being able to hear and many hear without being able to speak.” With this sentence, German media theorist Rudolf Arnheim criticized what he saw as the absurd paradox of radio in the 1930s. As long as radio operates as an one-way broadcast, it allows for no spontaneity. At best, it can serve only as a restricted and highly circumstantial form of communication. Echoing Arnheim’s criticism of the medium was German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Both men wanted to transform radio into a two-way medium, and in doing so close the circle of communication between listener and broadcaster.
The Radio_Copernicus series “Talking Back to Radio – Radio als Zuhörer – Artyści zmieniają radio” takes this concept and applies it to art. What connection do artists have to radio? How does radio change if it adopts aesthetic criteria? To what extent does the medium need to change its image and position in society to be a vehicle for innovative, artistic developments and, as a concequence, develop an advanced radio culture?
Radio_Copernicus organizes an international symposium at the Universiyty of Wroclaw, which examines the subject "artist radio" from different perspectives.
WORKSHOPS: What happens to radio, if artists take control? What is happening to the medium if it ignores the paradigm of marketing, news broadcasting and power rotation playlists? A wealth of alternative “radio activities” by engaged professionals around the world demonstrate that such a radio is conceivable, feasible and in demand. Radio_Copernicus provides a open forum to discuss possible answers to these questions -- not only in its programming, which is open to any form of radio art, but also in dedicated workshops. One such opportunity is offered by the international symposium “Talking Back to Radio”, to be held in Wroclaw, Poland, at the beginning of December. Those taking part in the event will discuss the key issues in the relationship between radio and art, and will receive practical, hands-on guidance from renown radio professionals.
The four workshops will take varying thematic approaches. The results will be presented by participants and their workshop supervisors at the international symposium “Talking Back To Radio” (18:30, Saturday, 10.12.05).
Workshop 1: Free Radio: A Media-Simulation in Three Days with Thomas Kupfer and Lukasz Smigiel
Workshop 2: Soundwalking From the Ear to the Radio Broadcast with Hildegard Westekamp and Lukasz Szalankiewicz
Workshop 3: LIGNA – Radio Art as Intervention and ‘Counter-Public’: Uncontrollable Situations, Unpredictable Productions with Ole Frahm and Torsten Michaelsen
Workshop 4: What is Radio Art? Artistic Approaches in International Comparison with Sabine Breitsameter and Robert Gawlowski
Parallel to the workshops is a nightly program of installations, net performances, concerts and radio plays at BWA Municipal Gallery/Wroclaw. The international symposium “Talking Back to Radio – Radio als Zuhörer – Artyści zmieniają radio” takes place from December 10 – 11. Admission is free in each case.
Posted by jo at November 14, 2005 09:33 AM
