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Airing Differences | Breaking Silences | Listening with Insomnia<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project REGARDING PAIN | Radio 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>\n\n\n\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>\n\n\n\n

In this context, we will partner with Marietta Kesting, a scholar in media, art, and cultural studies currently conducting research for the FWF project Don’t Wake Up! Future Dreaming in the Arts: At the Intersection of Aesthetics, Decolonization and Technology<\/em> at the Musik- und Kunstprivatuniversit\u00e4t der Stadt Wien. Marietta also researches at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Berlin and teaches at Potsdam University’s Institute of Arts and Media. Together, we will host a two-day seminar with Anabelle Lacroix\u2014curator, writer, researcher, and founder of the experimental radio project RADIO INSOMNIA\u2014who was invited to Vienna by Marietta Kesting. RADIO INSOMNIA is an all-night broadcast serving night communities, exploring the political and poetic dimensions of nighttime wakefulness while questioning: What possibilities emerge from listening at night when wakefulness is embraced rather than merely endured? Additionally, Marietta will join us twice for focused introductory reading sessions connected to our shared interest in radio. The reading sessions will take place April 9th and May7th. The seminar with Anabelle Lacroix will be held on May 28th and May 29th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

READING LIST 

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The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies<\/strong> – Edited By Mia Lindgren<\/strong><\/a>, Jason Loviglio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio’s New Wave. Global Sound in the Digital Era<\/strong> – Edited By Jason Loviglio<\/strong><\/a>, Michele Hilmes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and Radio Airing Differences<\/strong> – Edited By Caroline Mitchell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free Radio. The Electronic Civil Disobedience – <\/strong>By Lawrence Soley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radio Activism: Breaking the Silence and Empowering Women<\/strong> – Edited By Annette Rimmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ESSAYS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Javnost – The Public 1998-jan vol. 5 iss. 2] Mitchell, Caroline – Women\u2019s (Community) Radio as a Feminist Public Sphere (1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Journal of Radio Studies 2000-nov vol. 7 iss. 2] Mitchell, Caroline A. – _Short-Term Bursts of Inspiration__ The Development of British Women’s Alternative Radio (2000)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bertolt Brecht, Radio as a Means of Communication<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bertolt Brecht, Der Rundfunk als Kommunikationsapparat<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong> Rede \u00fcber die Funktion des Rundfunks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annabelle Lacroix, Listening with Insomnia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kate Lacey, Listening in the Digital Age, <\/strong>in: Radio\u2019s New Wave. Global Sound in the Digital Era<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Origins of Free Radio<\/strong> (Chapter 2) + Pirate Radio: The Early Rebellion<\/strong> (Chapter 5), both in: Free Radio. The Electronic Civic Disobedience<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Ehrick, Ethereal Gender: Thoughts on the History of Radio and Women\u2019s voices<\/strong>, in: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Shepperd, Understanding radio archives: coalitional historiography and sound memory work<\/strong>, in: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Berry, What is a podcast? Mapping the technical, cultural, and sonic boundaries between<\/strong>
<\/strong>radio and podcasting, <\/strong>in: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dario Llinares, \u2018Podcast studies\u2019 and its techno- social discourses,<\/strong> in: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell Hooks, M<\/strong>arginality as <\/strong>S<\/strong>ite of <\/strong>R<\/strong>esistance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Davis, Blame it on the Blues. Bessie Smith, Gertrude \u201cMa\u201d Rainey and the Politics of Blues Protest<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FILMS + INSTALLATIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Flames<\/strong> \u2013 Lizzie Borden 1983, 80 min. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live From Palestine<\/strong> \u2013 Rashid Masharawi 2001, 57 min.
Working Slowly (Lavorare con lentezza)<\/strong> \u2013 Gudio Chiesa, 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orient(N)ations<\/strong> \u2013 Fareed Armaly, 2004 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orph\u00e9e 1990<\/strong> \u2013 Fareed Armaly (1990 \u2013 2025)
No False Echoes<\/strong> \u2013 Wendelien van Oldenborgh 2008, 30 min.
La maison de la radio<\/strong> \u2013 Nicolas Philibert, 2013, 103 min. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delia Derbyshire<\/strong> \u2013 The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, Caroline Catz 2021, 90 min. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sculptress of Sound<\/strong> – The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire, BBC Channel 4 Documentary, 2018, 15 min.
Haven<\/strong> \u2013 James Newitt 2023, 35 min. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIO 

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