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Airing Differences | Radio Orange Live Broadcast<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The project REGARDING PAIN |\u00a0Radio RTPO emerged from students of our studio as a contribution to the Academy of Fine Arts’ annual Rundgang in January 2025. Students transformed the teaching pavilion on Semperdepot’s first floor into a temporary radio station, producing and broadcasting a six-hour live show throughout the building and beyond. Responding to our term\u2018s theme ‘On Violence,’ this project used Susan Sontag’s seminal text “Regarding the Pain of Others” as a framework to examine how media mediates our perception of others’ suffering. This exploration aimed to create a counterpoint to our image-saturated culture by prioritizing sonic experience over visual consumption.

Building on this foundation, our upcoming term will delve into both historical and contemporary radio cultures, exploring the tensions and connections between analog and digital forms, between the past and present of radio. In an era dominated by visual media, we deliberately shift our focus\u2014closing our eyes while perking up our ears. This reorientation invites us to engage with the complex dimensions of sonic experience: we shift our attention to speaking and listening, to stuttering and sensing, to recordings and erasures, to sonic evidences, to silences, interruptions and continuities, and we will examine the physical and metaphorical aspects of transmissions\u2014waves, signals, patterns, and disruptions. This exploration connects to radio’s rich cultural history while acknowledging its continued relevance in our digital landscape.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Radio cultures have historically served as vital channels for artistic experimentation, political resistance, and (feminist) community building. From the early avant-garde radio plays of the 1920s to pirate radio stations challenging state control, from community radio initiatives amplifying marginalized voices to contemporary podcasting revolutionizing media distribution, radio has consistently evolved while maintaining its intimate connection to the human voice and ear. By engaging with radio as both medium and metaphor, we will question how sonic transmissions shape our understanding of distance and proximity, presence and absence, isolation and connection\u2014themes that resonate deeply in this increasingly virtual world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the winter semester 2025, we are collaborating with the local station Radio ORANGE 94.0, Vienna’s largest independent radio station in german speaking countries. An introduction will cover the origins and political significance of Radio ORANGE: from the activism and spirit of Vienna’s pirate radio scene, which led to the fall of the public broadcasting monopoly following a 1993 European Court of Justice ruling, to the founding of the “Association for the Promotion and Support of Free Local Non-Commercial Radio Projects” and the legal realization of a Free Radio for the city of Vienna as a counterbalance to public and private commercial media. Together, we will organize a workshop focusing on content-related and technical aspects of radio production, with the goal of providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop their own radio contributions. Within the framework of this cooperation, a live radio station is set up for the Academy Tour 2026, which will broadcast student contributions live from the Semperdepot on ORANGE 94.0.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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On January 24, Art and Time | Media invites you to tune in and listen closely. For one evening, the teaching pavilion at Lehargasse becomes a temporary radio station \u2013 with voices in conversation, sound pieces and live performances. In collaboration with Radio Orange, the 90-minute radio show will be broadcasted live on 94.0 FM. Throughout the days of Rundgang, the space continues to resonate with what radio stands for \u2013 attention, transmission and collective listening. Visitors are therefor also invited to experience works by the students in dedicated listening settings. In the booklet there will be short texts from the artists about their contributions.<\/p>\r\n

Featuring works by: Kristina Cyan, Liam Noack, Zoe Glasenapp, Raphael R\u00f6\u00f6sli, Marie Lempelius, Laura Sole Hanser, Anatol Grandits, Lila-Zo\u00e9 Krau\u00df, Stefan Manuel Eggenweber, Jule W\u00fcrfel, Vildana Hermann, Liva Hage, Kasho Chualan, Karlotta Lou Bohacz, Nestor Hiebl, Thora Soboleva, Sopiko Sheitnishvili and Emma Bayer.<\/p>\r\n

But all systems at once sum up to noise
forces I\u2019d rather resist cooling into distance
variable slapdash of (mis)understandings
What MUST NOT remain
stable, like noise scribbles
a mouthful of gravel,
glue and sand under the playhead of
\u201cStability, Sweetie\u201d
I think what we call
like a toddler making crayon soup
a volatile production<\/p>\r\n

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