RADIO STADION BROADCASTS
International RADIO STADION for a weekend
in all the languages of the market
Sunday, 27th April, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
admission free, access from Rondo Waszyngtona
On the market around Stadion Dziesięciolecia there is a system of loudspeakers used for giving opening hours, making announcements, and providing other administrative information. The RADIO STADION BROADCASTS project will transform this local public address system into a weekend radio station. Its programme will be drawn up based on suggestions by the vendors from all over the world who trade at the market, and will be broadcast in their own languages. The original inspiration for the project came from a piece by the Danish artist Jens HAANING, who broadcast jokes in Turkish over a loudspeaker in the main square in Copenhagen. His installation created a community of laughter among Turkish emigrants, and temporarily inverted their situation by making the majority feel excluded for once.
The RADIO STADION BROADCASTS project uses an everyday means of communication to create an ephemeral participatory acoustic space blurring territorial, symbolic, and identity boundaries. The idea relies on the inability of the general public to understand programmes in the native languages of the vendors (sports commentary in Vietnamese, political manifestos in Arabic, news in Russian etc). Deriving from the concepts of radio art, the project will create a micro-society of listeners and performers made up of people who have been subtly enriching the homogenous landscape of the post-communist city since 1989.
The broadcasting will be prepared by Jacek Skolimowski and Adam Witkowski from Radio Simulator and Pit Schultz and Diana McCarty from Berlin backyardradio. Backyard Radio snatches the radio from tv towers and broadcasting agencies and instead of showering down on the city, the radio waves beam out of the districts and neighborhoods. The seat of backyardradio is now Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.
listen to the extracts of Radio Stadion
PRESS:
CJG - 25.04.2008
Gazeta Stołeczna 28.04.2008
