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a transdisciplinary radio project

WHY?

Against the background of a global pandemic, countless live streaming platforms emerged, providing an excess of options for expanded listening across the globe. We want to examine the potential and relevance of broadcasting in a contemporary media setting by connecting artists across the globe and across all disciplines. The surfacing of new contact zones — new spaces of encounter, of radical empathy, of careful listening — are at the center of this project. We are curious to examine and experience the entanglements of transmission, translation, and translocality.

WHAT?

The project takes place online. Participants will work together during 5 days and create a broadcasting programme of 48 hours.

Based on a previous collaboration between Kazakhstan and Switzerland, the digital setting expands the network and invites artists from across the world to participate. The project is physically hosted at MATERIAL in Zurich; other physical locations worldwide are welcome.

We are inviting practitioners from all disciplines: musicians, artists, journalists and researchers who are open to exploring the notion of contact zones. The result can be a DJ-set, a soundwalk, a telematic music performance, an interview or podcast. It can explore the transient nature of radio-transmissions or be materialized in a given location.

WHEN?

Conditions: interest in transcultural collaboration and radio formats; commitment to participation during all 7 days (5.–11. Oct 2020) of the project. Please apply with a brief project idea for the workshop week (1 page max).

Duration: daily

A small production budget is provided.

HOW DO I APPLY?

Please send your project idea to:

Partners

School of Commons / https://schoolofcommons.org

Zurich University of the Arts / https://www.zhdk.ch

Eurasian Cultural Alliance / https://www.cultura.kz

School of Artistic Gesture / https://www.cultura.kz/education