Sound & Radio workshop with visiting artist Ole Frahm

The workshop explores radio as an artistic tool for developing forms of intervention within public spaces. Listeners of a radio program are always already connected by the transmission. In most cases, this has no impact, listeners of the same station do not recognise each other. But in the case that they are aware, and the program is made specifically for their constellation within a public space, the listeners can become a conspiracy, acting undercover, and transforming the space through synchronous gestures, movements and creative actions.

In the workshop we will first discuss the possibilities of radio as a medium: How does radio function as media? What forms of artistic practice can be generated through acts of transmission? How do we understand radio today? This will be followed by an examination of public spaces in Bergen, to understand particular power structures of public space at play within the city. Finally, the workshop will culminate in developing a program for a secret society of radio listeners – transmission will be crafted and utilized as a strategy for intervening in a specifically contested public space, to suggest and open up other ways of how we might inhabit the city.

Ole Frahm is an artist and author based in Berlin. He is a member of the artistic collective LIGNA. The work of LIGNA aims at developing new platforms for radiophonic enactments, querying how transmission might counter existing narratives around public space and its privatization. Their artistic projects have been presented internationally, weaving together sound, media, dramaturgy and intervention that invite reflection and interaction.

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No prior technical skills required.

The course starts 22/02/2011 / Week 08, and ends 24/02/2011 / Week 08

Location: sted

Provider: Akademiet

Target group: Akademiet
MA Kunst
Alle studenter

Target year of study: Alle årstrinn

Capacity: 15

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