AGM 04 ONAIR/NET [CURATING, ARTISTIC PRACTICE]
Three-days programme simulcast on radio and the Internet on, supported by WORMradio/V2 Rotterdam, Radio Patapoe/OT301 Centre Amsterdam, Universitet Radioen Copenhagen. – – – Part 1 (Nov 26-28, 2004 in Rotterdam): Dialogue between spoken words and sounds; Part 2 (Dec 08-10, 2004 in Amsterdam): Radio as tactical media; Part 3 (Dec 15-17 in Copenhagen): radio-psycho-geography. – – – Featuring audio works by a cluster of poets, musician, performers and activists from all around the world, ‘making radio’ as a constituency of the public sphere was variously addressed according to the different nature of the radio we worked with (institutional, pirate and student-run). – – – Part 1 - Rhythmic Dialogues (26th Nov 2004; 08th Dec 2004; 15th Dec 2004). The first part of AGM OnAir/Net explored the dialogue between spoken word and sound, from sound-installation to experimentation of reading sex science through music, from angry poetry-reading to performance with songs texts. Artworks and artists: 1) Simultaneous: separate and together by Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer; 2) Wilhelm Recih Remix by Michael Schultze; 3) White Paper by John Farris; 4) Suicide by Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer – – – Part 2 - All Frequencies Unrestricted (27th Nov 2004; 09th Dec 2004; 16th Dec 2004). Second part dedicated at the medium radio itself, and how the radio is becoming more and more a strategic way of ‘active’ communication, economically affordable almost to everyone and fostering audience participation and reaction. Artworks and artists: Landscape+Oscillations by neuroTransmitter; Scattered Listening by Ligna and Wanda Wieczorek – – – Part 3 – Audiography (28th Nov 2004; 10th Dec 2004; 17th Dec 2004). Three different approaches to psychogeography; from the Situationists and Guy Debord to the contemporary the art world, how can a geography (also a personal geography of situations), can be ‘translated’ through audio material? Artworks and artists: ISTAN-BUL by A. Cramerotti and I. Bentzen; London Sound Study by the Boyle Family/The Centre Of Attention London 3) Domestic Disturbance: Flight or Fight or Shelter by e-Xplo - - - Co-curated with Iben Bentzen, with the support of Henk Bakker. Images clockwise from top left: Michael Schultze, e-Xplo and John Farris
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ISTAN-BUL, 2003
Sound, Video, Text, Prints
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Sound and video work on Istanbul's bridges connecting Asia and Europe, examples of the "representational aesthetics" of urban infrastructures. (with Iben Bentzen)
Istanbul is separated in two parts by a busy gulf.
What connect the Asian and the European side are the two bridges Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet. The latest one, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, is most often exposed. It appears as a glamorous image on the front page of various brochures and tourist maps. This bridge has a positive, symbolic meaning in the sense of connecting Asia and Europe. It is a symbol of a structured city proclaiming to be a European metropolis. One thing is how the tourist brochures represent the bridge, another is what the meaning of the bridge is in people’s mind. What do the inhabitants of Istanbul on respectively the Asian and the European side think about the bridge and its importance for the city? Is there despite the physical connection a psychological division?