Karen Werner
kwerner (at) montaguema.net
Areas of focus: radio art, audio assemblage, experimental documentary, live radio performance, politics of storytelling, radio autoethnography, transmission of memory, sound installation, collaboration, relational sound practice, performativity of language, voice, song, Buddhism, community economies.
“Sketchpad,” biweekly creative radio sonic zine on WMCB 107.9 FM in Greenfield, MA with livestream, November 2018-present
“The Psyche & Cupid Radio Hour,” collaboration with Dilşa Perinçek, simultaneous live broadcast on Sketchpad (WMCB 107.9 FM in Greenfield MA) and Radiophrenia (87.9 FM Glasgow, Scotland),
May 2019
“A Chance Encounter,” collaboration with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina Petrović, Orange 94.0 FM,
Vienna, Austria, March 2019
“What is Collaboration?” with Deanna Shoemaker, Radia FM, invited by Wave Farm, May 2018
“Covenant of the Tongue” + “Zirkus,” Kunstradio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Austria, April 22, 2018
Re-broadcast on Borealis, Bergen, Norway, 2019
“You Will Not See Me Die,” collaboration with Wendy Call, Earshot, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2017
“Seaweed,” Right Ear Dominant, Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman, 2017; Re-broadcast on RTE Lyric FM Ireland, 2017
“Strange Radio, Episodes 1-5,” Orange 94.0 FM, Vienna, Austria, November-December 2016
“Swimming in Butterflies,” Soundproof, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2016. Re-broadcast on RTE Lyric FM Ireland and Constellations Audio Podcast, 2018
“She Stops Watches,” Carte Blanche, Montreal, Quebec, February 2016
“Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” Earshot, Australian Broadcast Corporation, June & December 2015, Winner of Grand Prix Marulić, 2016
“Slow Down, Mr. Werner,” Radiotonic, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2015
“Kilfinane Loop,” Radiophrenia, Glasgow, Scotland 2015
“Resonance 1 & 2,” Deep Listening Festival, Troy, NY, 2014
“Montague Ball Drop,” Kinokophone Sound Cinema, Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts, NY, 2014
Selected Exhibitions: Sound Installations & Performance:
“Strange Radio: Live,” immersive sound installation performance in a former church with transmitter, radios and live narration.
Radical Interconnectedness Fest, Turners Falls, MA, April 2019
“The Wyrd (Three Fates),” collaborative live radio performance created with participants in workshop I led at Media
Lab, Aalto University to launch Ääniaalto IV Sound Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland, March 2019
“A Chance Encounter,” 8-channel collaborative sound installation with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina
Petrović, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, February -April 2019
“Haus, Part 2, Zirkus,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia, November 2018-
February 2019
“A Chance Event,” 8-channel collaborative sound installation with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina
Petrović, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia, part of Computer Art Festival WFMR, November 2018
“Haus, Part 1, Covenant of the Tongue,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia,
June 10-October 24, 2018
“Haus, Part 2, Zirkus,” 8-channel sound installation with artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth
Kelvin and der Sprechchor directed by Bruno Pisek, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria,
May 28, 2018-August 28, 2018
“Haus, Parts 1 & 2,” 8-channel sound installation, central piece of exhibition “Tonspur 76_Expanded: Karen Werner’s HAUS,
Plus A Group Of Works Circling About Holocaust Postmemory And The Stranger,” curated by Georg Weckwerth, Projectroom MAG3, Vienna, Austria, February 22-March 23, 2018
“Haus, Part 1, Covenant of the Tongue,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier,
Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2017-February 24, 2018
Featured artist on Earlid, online radio and audio arts platform curated by Joan Schuman: October - December 2018
WMTQ pop-up radio, 6-hour collaborative narrowcast from cupola of Montague Bookmill, Montague, MA, September 2017
Invited Artist, Saturday Afternoon Show with Tom Roe, Wave Farm, WXGC 103.9 FM, Acra, NY, July 29, 2017
Featured Radio Artist, Radio Art 106 FM, produced and curated by Meira Asher, Haifa, Israel, Dec. 25, 2016 + Jan. 1, 2017
“Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent, Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, NC, January 10-February 18, 2017.
“Jetzt Höre Ich/ Now I Hear,” radio piece for Live Art Magazine, Academy of Music, Northampton, MA, October 21, 2016.
Presented at International Features Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Brit Jensen and Viola Jezkova, May 2018;
Yle Radio Features Department, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Outi Rossi, January 2019
Werner, K. (Forthcoming in Summer 2019). Covenant of the Tongue. For [In]Transition, Special Double Issue on Audiography, Guest Editors Neil Verma and Jacob Smith.
Werner, K. (Forthcoming in 2019). In Praise, In Praise of the Radio Autoethnography: A Radio Collage. Qualitative Inquiry.
Werner, K. (2017). Autoethnography as a Way of Being (Radiophonic). International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(1), 97-100.
Gansworth, L. & Werner, K. (2016). First Medicine: Stories of Water & Now. Rethinking Marxism: Special Issue on Marxism and Spirituality, 28(3), 385-396.
Werner, K. (2015). Performing Economies of Care in a New England Time Bank and Buddhist Community. In G. Roelvink, K. St. Martin, & J.K. Gibson-Graham (Eds.), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies (pp. 72-97). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Werner, K. (2007). Understanding and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Time Bank. In J. Allard, C. Davidson, and J. Matthaei (Eds.), Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet (pp.139-154). Chicago: ChangeMaker Publications.
“Radical Interconnectedness Fest Artists Panel,” Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA, April 28, 2019
“Strange Radio as Method,” Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, March 25, 2019
“Working Collaboratively,” with Deanna Shoemaker, Autoethnography Special Interest Group, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2018.
“Politics of Storytelling,” invited presenter Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic, March 2018
“Ghost’s Radio: Art, Research, Possibilities” invited presenter for Spaces Beyond: Parallax Forum Network, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, November 2017
“The Art of Postmemory,” public workshop at Limmud Wien, VHS Polycollege, Vienna, Austria, November 2017
“Sounding Autoethnographic Performance: Radio, Song and Digital Audio as Inquiry,” co-organizer of panel. Presenter, “Strange Radio: Radiophonic Space and Performance Autoethnography,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2017
“Audio Autoethnography,” workshop leader and podcast contributor for “Poetic Mobilities,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2016
“Audio Ethnography: Art and Politics of Knowledge Production,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, May 2015
“Telling Sound Stories,” invited presenter for Smith College seminar organized by Dr. Julio Alves, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
“Audio Hearth,” co-founder (with Tina Antolini in 2013), now co-organizer (with Andrew Leland) of western Massachusetts free radio and audio listening events with guest curators, 2013-present
“Radio Art: Listening to the Deep Connection” (BFA in Socially Engaged Art course), partly online Materials & Methods semester course for learning about, producing and performing radio art; student final projects broadcast on WGDR 91.1 FM at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, fall 2018
“Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction Audio Storytelling,” semester course in production, theory and listening; student final projects broadcast on Hampshire’s Yurt Radio, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, spring 2016
“True Stories: Adventures in Nonfiction Storytelling,” dual enrollment free college semester course for Vermont high schoolers. Student pieces broadcast on WGDR 91.1 FM at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, spring 2015
“Audio Storytelling,” nine-day audio story production intensive, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, January 2014
Visiting Artist, Radio Autoethnography, production, theory and live broadcasts on Orange 94.0 FM, Vienna, Austria. Workshops for Phd-in-Practice Program, Akademie der Bildenden Künste (March 2018) and at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien as part of Ricarda Denzer’s seminar “Horvergessen” (March 2018, March 2019)
Visiting Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, production, theory and broadcasts of Ghosts Radio (memory, haunting, justice); both episodes broadcast on Orange 94.0 FM in Vienna (October 2017, March 2018)
“Politics of Storytelling,” Megapolis, Philadelphia, PA; HearSay Audio Arts Festival, Kilfinane, Ireland, September 2017
Art Reviews & Interviews:
“Strange Radio Elicits Deep Listening,” by Trish Crapo, Montague Reporter, March 27, 2019
“Strange Radio, Radical Interconnectedness,” Interview with Monte Belmonte, 93.9 FM The River, April 2019
“Zapotec Language and the Language of Radio,” Interview on InContrast: A Podcast on Culture in the Making with Ilan Stavans, New England Public Radio (NEPR), February 12, 2018
“Undulating Fabric of Time” and “Haunting: A Conversation with Karen Werner,” by Joan Schuman, Earlid, Fall 2018
“Listening to the Deep Connection, KW Interview with Frank Jodicke,” Skug MusikKulture, February 2018
Also appears in German in DAVID: Judische KultureZeitschrift, December 2018
Monson Arts Center, Monson, ME, 2019
Elektronmusikstudion with Yvette Janine Jackson, Stockholm,
Sweden , 2019
Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence, Mynämäki, Finland, 2019
Mobile Art Lab Residency, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice,
Poland, 2017-2018
MuseumsQuartier at invitation of Tonspur Kunstverein Wien,
Austria, 2017
studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2016
Vermont Studio Center funded by Hemera Foundation, 2014
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship for “Strange Radio,” 2017-2018
Grand Prix Marulić for Radio Documentary, “Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” 2016
Alternate • Fulbright Core Scholar (Faculty) Fellowship, Cork, Ireland, 2015-2016
Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow,2014-2016
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Audio Production, 2014+ 2019
American Sociological Association Sydney Spivack Community Action Research Award for Research on Community Enterprises, 2005
Professional Development (Travel) Grant • Goddard College annually 2001-present
Masters of Education • Harvard University, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Semiotics & Anthropology • Brown University, RI
kwerner (at) montaguema.net
Areas of focus: radio art, audio assemblage, experimental documentary, live radio performance, politics of storytelling, radio autoethnography, transmission of memory, sound installation, collaboration, relational sound practice, performativity of language, voice, song, Buddhism, community economies.
Selected Radio and Audio Work:
“The Psyche & Cupid Radio Hour,” collaboration with Dilşa Perinçek, simultaneous live broadcast on Sketchpad (WMCB 107.9 FM in Greenfield MA) and Radiophrenia (87.9 FM Glasgow, Scotland),
May 2019
“A Chance Encounter,” collaboration with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina Petrović, Orange 94.0 FM,
Vienna, Austria, March 2019
“What is Collaboration?” with Deanna Shoemaker, Radia FM, invited by Wave Farm, May 2018
“Covenant of the Tongue” + “Zirkus,” Kunstradio, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Austria, April 22, 2018
Re-broadcast on Borealis, Bergen, Norway, 2019
“You Will Not See Me Die,” collaboration with Wendy Call, Earshot, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2017
“Seaweed,” Right Ear Dominant, Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman, 2017; Re-broadcast on RTE Lyric FM Ireland, 2017
“Strange Radio, Episodes 1-5,” Orange 94.0 FM, Vienna, Austria, November-December 2016
“Swimming in Butterflies,” Soundproof, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2016. Re-broadcast on RTE Lyric FM Ireland and Constellations Audio Podcast, 2018
“She Stops Watches,” Carte Blanche, Montreal, Quebec, February 2016
“Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” Earshot, Australian Broadcast Corporation, June & December 2015, Winner of Grand Prix Marulić, 2016
“Slow Down, Mr. Werner,” Radiotonic, Australian Broadcast Corporation, 2015
“Kilfinane Loop,” Radiophrenia, Glasgow, Scotland 2015
“Resonance 1 & 2,” Deep Listening Festival, Troy, NY, 2014
“Montague Ball Drop,” Kinokophone Sound Cinema, Lincoln Center Library for Performing Arts, NY, 2014
Selected Exhibitions: Sound Installations & Performance:
“Strange Radio: Live,” immersive sound installation performance in a former church with transmitter, radios and live narration.
Radical Interconnectedness Fest, Turners Falls, MA, April 2019
“The Wyrd (Three Fates),” collaborative live radio performance created with participants in workshop I led at Media
Lab, Aalto University to launch Ääniaalto IV Sound Art Festival, Helsinki, Finland, March 2019
“A Chance Encounter,” 8-channel collaborative sound installation with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina
Petrović, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, February -April 2019
“Haus, Part 2, Zirkus,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia, November 2018-
February 2019
“A Chance Event,” 8-channel collaborative sound installation with Yvette Janine Jackson, Bojana S. Knežević, and Katarina
Petrović, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia, part of Computer Art Festival WFMR, November 2018
“Haus, Part 1, Covenant of the Tongue,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Passage at Town Hall, Maribor, Slovenia,
June 10-October 24, 2018
“Haus, Part 2, Zirkus,” 8-channel sound installation with artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth
Kelvin and der Sprechchor directed by Bruno Pisek, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria,
May 28, 2018-August 28, 2018
“Haus, Parts 1 & 2,” 8-channel sound installation, central piece of exhibition “Tonspur 76_Expanded: Karen Werner’s HAUS,
Plus A Group Of Works Circling About Holocaust Postmemory And The Stranger,” curated by Georg Weckwerth, Projectroom MAG3, Vienna, Austria, February 22-March 23, 2018
“Haus, Part 1, Covenant of the Tongue,” 8-channel sound installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien, MuseumsQuartier,
Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2017-February 24, 2018
Featured artist on Earlid, online radio and audio arts platform curated by Joan Schuman: October - December 2018
WMTQ pop-up radio, 6-hour collaborative narrowcast from cupola of Montague Bookmill, Montague, MA, September 2017
Invited Artist, Saturday Afternoon Show with Tom Roe, Wave Farm, WXGC 103.9 FM, Acra, NY, July 29, 2017
Featured Radio Artist, Radio Art 106 FM, produced and curated by Meira Asher, Haifa, Israel, Dec. 25, 2016 + Jan. 1, 2017
“Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent, Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, NC, January 10-February 18, 2017.
“Jetzt Höre Ich/ Now I Hear,” radio piece for Live Art Magazine, Academy of Music, Northampton, MA, October 21, 2016.
Presented at International Features Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Brit Jensen and Viola Jezkova, May 2018;
Yle Radio Features Department, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Outi Rossi, January 2019
Selected Publications:
Shoemaker, D. & Werner, K. (Forthcoming in Fall 2019). Listening and Becoming: An Audio Autoethnographic Collaboration. With accompanying audio piece, “What is Collaboration?” International Review of Qualitative Research. Werner, K. (Forthcoming in Summer 2019). Covenant of the Tongue. For [In]Transition, Special Double Issue on Audiography, Guest Editors Neil Verma and Jacob Smith.
Werner, K. (Forthcoming in 2019). In Praise, In Praise of the Radio Autoethnography: A Radio Collage. Qualitative Inquiry.
Werner, K. (2017). Autoethnography as a Way of Being (Radiophonic). International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(1), 97-100.
Gansworth, L. & Werner, K. (2016). First Medicine: Stories of Water & Now. Rethinking Marxism: Special Issue on Marxism and Spirituality, 28(3), 385-396.
Werner, K. (2015). Performing Economies of Care in a New England Time Bank and Buddhist Community. In G. Roelvink, K. St. Martin, & J.K. Gibson-Graham (Eds.), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies (pp. 72-97). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Werner, K. (2007). Understanding and Reclaiming Money Creation: Our Experiences Creating the North Quabbin Time Bank. In J. Allard, C. Davidson, and J. Matthaei (Eds.), Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet (pp.139-154). Chicago: ChangeMaker Publications.
Selected Talks & Presentations:
“Strange Radio, Live! Listening to the Deep Connection: A Lecture-Performance-Transmission” ArtNow Visiting Artist public talk, Monmouth University, NJ, forthcoming on October 16, 2019“Radical Interconnectedness Fest Artists Panel,” Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA, April 28, 2019
“Strange Radio as Method,” Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, March 25, 2019
“Working Collaboratively,” with Deanna Shoemaker, Autoethnography Special Interest Group, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2018.
“Politics of Storytelling,” invited presenter Prix Bohemia Radio Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic, March 2018
“Ghost’s Radio: Art, Research, Possibilities” invited presenter for Spaces Beyond: Parallax Forum Network, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, November 2017
“The Art of Postmemory,” public workshop at Limmud Wien, VHS Polycollege, Vienna, Austria, November 2017
“Sounding Autoethnographic Performance: Radio, Song and Digital Audio as Inquiry,” co-organizer of panel. Presenter, “Strange Radio: Radiophonic Space and Performance Autoethnography,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2017
“Audio Autoethnography,” workshop leader and podcast contributor for “Poetic Mobilities,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2016
“Audio Ethnography: Art and Politics of Knowledge Production,” International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, May 2015
“Telling Sound Stories,” invited presenter for Smith College seminar organized by Dr. Julio Alves, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
“Audio Hearth,” co-founder (with Tina Antolini in 2013), now co-organizer (with Andrew Leland) of western Massachusetts free radio and audio listening events with guest curators, 2013-present
Selected Courses Taught:
“Making the Word Incarnate, the Body a Text” (BFA in Socially Engaged Art course), partly online Art & Ideas semester course about the lecture-performance as artistic form, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, spring 2019“Radio Art: Listening to the Deep Connection” (BFA in Socially Engaged Art course), partly online Materials & Methods semester course for learning about, producing and performing radio art; student final projects broadcast on WGDR 91.1 FM at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, fall 2018
“Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction Audio Storytelling,” semester course in production, theory and listening; student final projects broadcast on Hampshire’s Yurt Radio, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, spring 2016
“True Stories: Adventures in Nonfiction Storytelling,” dual enrollment free college semester course for Vermont high schoolers. Student pieces broadcast on WGDR 91.1 FM at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, spring 2015
“Audio Storytelling,” nine-day audio story production intensive, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, January 2014
Selected Workshop Teaching:
Visiting Artist, Radio Audity! Media Lab, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, led two-day radio art production workshop free and open to the public culminating in a pirate radio performance broadcast, March 2019Visiting Artist, Radio Autoethnography, production, theory and live broadcasts on Orange 94.0 FM, Vienna, Austria. Workshops for Phd-in-Practice Program, Akademie der Bildenden Künste (March 2018) and at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien as part of Ricarda Denzer’s seminar “Horvergessen” (March 2018, March 2019)
Visiting Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland, production, theory and broadcasts of Ghosts Radio (memory, haunting, justice); both episodes broadcast on Orange 94.0 FM in Vienna (October 2017, March 2018)
“Politics of Storytelling,” Megapolis, Philadelphia, PA; HearSay Audio Arts Festival, Kilfinane, Ireland, September 2017
Art Reviews & Interviews:
“Strange Radio Elicits Deep Listening,” by Trish Crapo, Montague Reporter, March 27, 2019
“Strange Radio, Radical Interconnectedness,” Interview with Monte Belmonte, 93.9 FM The River, April 2019
“Zapotec Language and the Language of Radio,” Interview on InContrast: A Podcast on Culture in the Making with Ilan Stavans, New England Public Radio (NEPR), February 12, 2018
“Undulating Fabric of Time” and “Haunting: A Conversation with Karen Werner,” by Joan Schuman, Earlid, Fall 2018
“Listening to the Deep Connection, KW Interview with Frank Jodicke,” Skug MusikKulture, February 2018
Also appears in German in DAVID: Judische KultureZeitschrift, December 2018
Grants, Awards and Honors:
Art Residencies:Monson Arts Center, Monson, ME, 2019
Elektronmusikstudion with Yvette Janine Jackson, Stockholm,
Sweden , 2019
Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence, Mynämäki, Finland, 2019
Mobile Art Lab Residency, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice,
Poland, 2017-2018
MuseumsQuartier at invitation of Tonspur Kunstverein Wien,
Austria, 2017
studio das weisse haus, Vienna, Austria, 2016
Vermont Studio Center funded by Hemera Foundation, 2014
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship for “Strange Radio,” 2017-2018
Grand Prix Marulić for Radio Documentary, “Laws of Lost and Found Objects,” 2016
Alternate • Fulbright Core Scholar (Faculty) Fellowship, Cork, Ireland, 2015-2016
Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow,2014-2016
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Audio Production, 2014+ 2019
American Sociological Association Sydney Spivack Community Action Research Award for Research on Community Enterprises, 2005
Professional Development (Travel) Grant • Goddard College annually 2001-present
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology • Brandeis University, MA
Dissertation: A Sociology of Contemporary Activist Art, 1990-2004Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology • Brandeis University, MA
Masters of Education • Harvard University, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Semiotics & Anthropology • Brown University, RI
