#183. Onafhankelijke geluidskunst, radiofonische projecten en andere audio-non-visuele misverstanden en vondsten. Met deel 2 van het internationale project Mobile Radio. Mobile Radio are invited artists of the 30° Bienal São Paulo. Mobile Radio BSP is the contribution of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann to the 30th São Paulo art biennial.
MOBILE RADIO:
Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann began Mobile Radio on the 18th September 2005. For the first two years the project was touring Europe without a home base.
Mobile Radio was established as a travelling project to build upon our work across Europe in the fields of radio and sound art which had arisen during the three years that we helped to establish the London art radio station Resonance 104.4FM. Our work takes us to media and art festivals, conferences, universities and one-off events where we run short-lived radio stations, create special live broadcasts or edited pieces, give workshops or talks, design radio installations and play concerts. Our interest in radio technology is complete: our live electronic improvised music duo Tonic Train – radio terminology for ‘interrupted continuous wave’ – features radio feedback and mini transmitters built into circuit-bent instruments.
Following on from the success of the Resonance venture and the numerous radio experiments we were able to carry out there, we have since been invited as guest ‘radio experts’ by projects tapping into a renewed interest in experimental radio and ‘radio art’. Now based in Germany, we continue the work of Mobile Radio with those who want to develop concepts through the medium of radio. More than that, Mobile Radio remains a personal artistic journey to create radio work which arises from our encounters and surroundings. Our mission remains the same as it was the first day we first set off on our epic airwave adventure: to seek out new forms of radio by taking radio production out of the studio environment.
About Mobile Radio BSP:
Mobile Radio are invited artists of the 30° Bienal São Paulo.
Mobile Radio BSP is the contribution of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann to the 30th São Paulo art biennial. It is a temporary radio art station broadcasting from the 3rd September until the 9th December 2012 from a studio inside the Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo in the Parque do Ibirapuera. Transmitting around the clock for fourteen weeks on FM at 87,5 MHz inside the exhibition hall and streaming online at mobile-radio.net & the Bienal website.
With Mobile Radio BSP we aim to disseminate radio art around the globe by way of introduction and interchange. In collaboration with the international radio art network Radia we bring the work of currently active European, North American and Australasian radio artists and stations to Brazil, and seek out the work of South American artists to celebrate and share. Our specially created Bienal studio in São Paulo is the hub of an expanded radio art exchange network: through live broadcasts syndicated out to partner stations, simulcasts of incoming transmissions from around the world, by offering opportunities for artists to explore unprecedented freedom of airtime, unearthing archive material from Brazilian cultural institutions and enticing local people and biennial visitors to engage with, and perhaps contribute to, unfamiliar radio experimentation.
In-between the daily hubbub, to soothe our ears at night we listen in to natural radio signals, live sound installations and other expressions of eternity, elusiveness and duration. As the icing on the cake, Mobile Radio are delighted to invite artists from around the world to join them for special broadcast weeks in São Paulo to establish an evolving spectrum of styles and atmospheres over the transmission time. Local and visiting artists, musicians, critics and curators, many new to radio, create a series of shows and radio happenings at the Bienal. We add to the melting pot of material and cultures our own blend of feedback exploration, plunderphonics, vocal stutters and sonic meanders. Above all, Mobile Radio BSP creates a dynamic platform from which experiments in radio can flourish.
The schedule remains flexible to allow the vitality of radio to shine through in all its chaotic splendour; we are offering a multilingual out-pouring to confound, confuse, stimulate and delight – which facilitates the continuation of Mobile Radio’s mission to enliven the airwaves by shaking radio out of its tree.
Sarah Washington & Knut Aufermann.
Mobile Radio BSP associate producer: Leandro Nerefuh.
Bienal Associate Curator responsible for Mobile Radio BSP: Tobi Maier.
Bienal Producer for Mobile Radio BSP: Joaquim Millan.
Bienal Chief Curator: Luis Pérez-Oramas.
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