Summer & Fall 2023
8/23-27: Shortwave Collective joins the International Sound Art Biennial in Struer, Denmark for a residency and Open Wave-Receiver Installation.
6/23: "Seijo and her Soul," radio art commission for Lumpen Station, an radio art station in Switzerland
8/23-27: Shortwave Collective joins the International Sound Art Biennial in Struer, Denmark for a residency and Open Wave-Receiver Installation.
6/23: "Seijo and her Soul," radio art commission for Lumpen Station, an radio art station in Switzerland
Winter & Spring 2023
4/30: A special Radio Multe performance with Sara Gebran and her performative text Quantum Society. Also featuring Kjersti Sundland, Sidsel Christensen and me as collaborators.
2/23: Radio Multe live broadcast with members of Radio Pata, a station based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Radio Pata will be in Bergen at the invitation of BIT Teatergarasjen
photo by Siavash Kheirkhah
2/22-24: Radio BAS, a non-extractive Radio Station cross-course workshop at Bergen Architecture School, part of their Big Wonderful Experiment towards design that does not extract or deplete materially, socially or culturally.
2/6-21: Residency at Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, Bergen NO
4/30: A special Radio Multe performance with Sara Gebran and her performative text Quantum Society. Also featuring Kjersti Sundland, Sidsel Christensen and me as collaborators.
2/23: Radio Multe live broadcast with members of Radio Pata, a station based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Radio Pata will be in Bergen at the invitation of BIT Teatergarasjen
photo by Siavash Kheirkhah
2/22-24: Radio BAS, a non-extractive Radio Station cross-course workshop at Bergen Architecture School, part of their Big Wonderful Experiment towards design that does not extract or deplete materially, socially or culturally.
2/6-21: Residency at Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst, Bergen NO
Summer & Fall 2022
11/24-25: Participating in Liisa-Ravna Finbog's workshop, "Indigenous Methodologies and Creative Practice," Tampere University, Finland.
11/18-19: With Shortwave Collective, teaching DIY radio Open Wave Receiver workshops at PikselFest in Bergen, Norway.
11/17: "Swimming in Butterflies" (2016) plays at In The Dark, London, curated by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard.
10/24-26: Radio performance in Stavanger, Norway, part of the Norwegian Artistic Research Fall Forum.
9/20-22: Teaching "Performing Theory" workshop at Bergen Architecture School (BAS), Bergen, Norway.
8/13: A Line Associated to Other Lines – Ricarda Denzer & Karen Werner’s live Hörspiel is a postcard libretto as a score with a string, two speakers and Ontological Popsongs.
This is part of a 3 week Social Acoustics installation organized by Brandon LaBelle and Jill Halstead. Our performance is at Bergen Kjøtt, 8pm, and we are very excited for this collaboration.
7/3-8/1: Joining Røst AiR as a resident on the lighthouse island of Skomvær on the arctic cirlce with Sabine Popp, other humans, seaweed, wind....far off seals and puffins, too.
6/29: Artist talk, Penser avec les Pieds, at Das Kapital on Karl Marx Platz in Berlin, 8pm CET.
6/28: Braiding Radio with Kate Donovan on CoLaboRadio 88.4fm, 3-4pm CET, part of a day long transmission from Kate's gardenhouse on the outskirts of Berlin.
6/10-30: In Berlin and Kassel visiting community FM radio stations as forms of collectivity, thanks to a research grant from the Meltzer Fond.
11/24-25: Participating in Liisa-Ravna Finbog's workshop, "Indigenous Methodologies and Creative Practice," Tampere University, Finland.
11/18-19: With Shortwave Collective, teaching DIY radio Open Wave Receiver workshops at PikselFest in Bergen, Norway.
11/17: "Swimming in Butterflies" (2016) plays at In The Dark, London, curated by Phoebe McIndoe and Redzi Bernard.
10/24-26: Radio performance in Stavanger, Norway, part of the Norwegian Artistic Research Fall Forum.
9/20-22: Teaching "Performing Theory" workshop at Bergen Architecture School (BAS), Bergen, Norway.
8/13: A Line Associated to Other Lines – Ricarda Denzer & Karen Werner’s live Hörspiel is a postcard libretto as a score with a string, two speakers and Ontological Popsongs.
This is part of a 3 week Social Acoustics installation organized by Brandon LaBelle and Jill Halstead. Our performance is at Bergen Kjøtt, 8pm, and we are very excited for this collaboration.
7/3-8/1: Joining Røst AiR as a resident on the lighthouse island of Skomvær on the arctic cirlce with Sabine Popp, other humans, seaweed, wind....far off seals and puffins, too.
6/29: Artist talk, Penser avec les Pieds, at Das Kapital on Karl Marx Platz in Berlin, 8pm CET.
6/28: Braiding Radio with Kate Donovan on CoLaboRadio 88.4fm, 3-4pm CET, part of a day long transmission from Kate's gardenhouse on the outskirts of Berlin.
6/10-30: In Berlin and Kassel visiting community FM radio stations as forms of collectivity, thanks to a research grant from the Meltzer Fond.
Winter & Spring 2022
5/21: Radio Multe 93.8fm joins with Lakri FM for an afternoon broadcast in collaboration with Gåologi, a performance about walking and the city by Alwynne Pritchard and Eva Pfitzenmaier. We are turning an old ticket kiosk in Laksevåg into a radio station, 14.00-18.00.
5/4: We Meet at Dusk, broadcasting from a boat at dusk, a radiophonic lullaby for the day by Kjersti Sundland, Sidsel Christensen and me. Listen at 93.8fm or radiomulte.live, part of Hordaland Kunstsenter's exhibition "We Meet at Dusk."
3/20: Radio Multe 93.8fm joins with Borealis' Resonating Nordnes. "Byen Vår/ Our City: Nordnes," a live oral history with Evy Sørensen by Anna Watson + Karen Werner, live music by Fabian Lanzmaier, 10.00-13.00.
3/11-14: Sounding Research, Angewandte, Vienna. A 3-day series of workshops and audio paper presentation organized by Ricarda Denzer. I will be giving a workshop and performing an audio paper about radio jamming.
5/21: Radio Multe 93.8fm joins with Lakri FM for an afternoon broadcast in collaboration with Gåologi, a performance about walking and the city by Alwynne Pritchard and Eva Pfitzenmaier. We are turning an old ticket kiosk in Laksevåg into a radio station, 14.00-18.00.
5/4: We Meet at Dusk, broadcasting from a boat at dusk, a radiophonic lullaby for the day by Kjersti Sundland, Sidsel Christensen and me. Listen at 93.8fm or radiomulte.live, part of Hordaland Kunstsenter's exhibition "We Meet at Dusk."
3/20: Radio Multe 93.8fm joins with Borealis' Resonating Nordnes. "Byen Vår/ Our City: Nordnes," a live oral history with Evy Sørensen by Anna Watson + Karen Werner, live music by Fabian Lanzmaier, 10.00-13.00.
3/11-14: Sounding Research, Angewandte, Vienna. A 3-day series of workshops and audio paper presentation organized by Ricarda Denzer. I will be giving a workshop and performing an audio paper about radio jamming.
Summer & Fall 2021
12/18: Broadcast begins of Radio Hopes & Dreams at Wave Farm occasionared by the arrival in NYC of a Norwegian ship doing climate research. Sabine Popp and I will share our piece about seaweed and listening.
11/21: Live from Radio Multe, a video live stream performance with Alwynne Pritchard relayed to Tonspur Kunstverein Wien and MQ21 in Vienna from the newly launched radio station in Bergen, 17.00-18.00 CET. Watch and listen here.
11/3-7: Air Conditions commission and participation on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio (107.1FM in eastern iceland) and Vers Libre (verslib.re). Alwynne Pritchard joins me live on air for a performance about being on air! Listen here.
9/22: Joining Ricarda Denzer's presentation, Para-Listening: How to Perform Remotely, Angewandte Performance Lab, Vienna. More info here.
9/10: Broadcast with Sabine Popp at 17.00 CET on Radio Hopes & Dreams, a mobile FM radio station in a van, part of Elin Már Øyen Vister's Lygalleriet and Bergen Kunsthall exhibition.
9/8 & 10/18: Working presentations of Bergen Community FM development at DIKU artistic research events.
9/8: Joining Brandon LaBelle's The Pirate Academy, setting up a mini-FM station at the Art Academy in Bergen.
8/31: Radio Tenthaus Takeover, imagining Bergen Community FM live on air with William Kudahl, Ebba Moi, Isak Ree and Kate Donovan. In Oslo, Norway at 105.8FM and online via InterFM beginning at 20.00 CET.
6/25-7/23: Artist-in-residence at Venø Gård KUNST on the island of Venøya on the West Coast of Norway, 5 hours north of Bergen by ferry.
12/18: Broadcast begins of Radio Hopes & Dreams at Wave Farm occasionared by the arrival in NYC of a Norwegian ship doing climate research. Sabine Popp and I will share our piece about seaweed and listening.
11/21: Live from Radio Multe, a video live stream performance with Alwynne Pritchard relayed to Tonspur Kunstverein Wien and MQ21 in Vienna from the newly launched radio station in Bergen, 17.00-18.00 CET. Watch and listen here.
11/3-7: Air Conditions commission and participation on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio (107.1FM in eastern iceland) and Vers Libre (verslib.re). Alwynne Pritchard joins me live on air for a performance about being on air! Listen here.
9/22: Joining Ricarda Denzer's presentation, Para-Listening: How to Perform Remotely, Angewandte Performance Lab, Vienna. More info here.
9/10: Broadcast with Sabine Popp at 17.00 CET on Radio Hopes & Dreams, a mobile FM radio station in a van, part of Elin Már Øyen Vister's Lygalleriet and Bergen Kunsthall exhibition.
9/8 & 10/18: Working presentations of Bergen Community FM development at DIKU artistic research events.
9/8: Joining Brandon LaBelle's The Pirate Academy, setting up a mini-FM station at the Art Academy in Bergen.
8/31: Radio Tenthaus Takeover, imagining Bergen Community FM live on air with William Kudahl, Ebba Moi, Isak Ree and Kate Donovan. In Oslo, Norway at 105.8FM and online via InterFM beginning at 20.00 CET.
6/25-7/23: Artist-in-residence at Venø Gård KUNST on the island of Venøya on the West Coast of Norway, 5 hours north of Bergen by ferry.
Winer & Spring 2021
5/4-5/6: Re- radio: Radio Art's Evocations production course for BA and MA art students at KMD in Bergen
4/17: Who are you SkottegatenFM? Live radio performance and street party with DJ Simon Alejandro as part of Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK) artist-residency-at-home. 16.00-18.00
3/20: SkottegatenFM joins Borealis' Resonating Nordnes, a curated day of experimental sounds all over Bergen's Nordnes neighborhood. An extended SkottegatenFM braodcast with guests, commissions, neighbors and waffles. 10.00-16.00
3/16 & 2/16: Artistic research presentations of re- radio and SkottegatenFM for KMD staff research seminar and DIKU's Artistic Research Spring Forum
3/11: Screening of radio-visual poem SkottegatenFM as part of Flickers and Frequencies in Philmont, NY.
2/12: Radio works included in Femkanje's Spaces of Togetherness exhibit at the Cultural Center in Belgrade and online. Femkanje is a Serbian feminist sound and podcast project of Bojana Knežević and Katarina Petrović
2/8: "Listening and Becoming through Sound: Audio Autoethnographic Collaboration as Critical Communication Pedagogy" by Dr. Deanna Shoemaker and me will be published in The Review of Communication, part of their special Re(sounding) Pedagogies Issue
2/6: Launch of SkottegatenFM at 88.66FM, a 3-month FM micro-radio station transmitting from my apartment in Bergen and from the homes of neighbors. Listening station available at Hordaland Kunstsenter. Weekly schedules posted here
2/6: Beginning a work residency from home with the wonderful BEK (Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst) to create SkottegatenFM.
5/4-5/6: Re- radio: Radio Art's Evocations production course for BA and MA art students at KMD in Bergen
4/17: Who are you SkottegatenFM? Live radio performance and street party with DJ Simon Alejandro as part of Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK) artist-residency-at-home. 16.00-18.00
3/20: SkottegatenFM joins Borealis' Resonating Nordnes, a curated day of experimental sounds all over Bergen's Nordnes neighborhood. An extended SkottegatenFM braodcast with guests, commissions, neighbors and waffles. 10.00-16.00
3/16 & 2/16: Artistic research presentations of re- radio and SkottegatenFM for KMD staff research seminar and DIKU's Artistic Research Spring Forum
3/11: Screening of radio-visual poem SkottegatenFM as part of Flickers and Frequencies in Philmont, NY.
2/12: Radio works included in Femkanje's Spaces of Togetherness exhibit at the Cultural Center in Belgrade and online. Femkanje is a Serbian feminist sound and podcast project of Bojana Knežević and Katarina Petrović
2/8: "Listening and Becoming through Sound: Audio Autoethnographic Collaboration as Critical Communication Pedagogy" by Dr. Deanna Shoemaker and me will be published in The Review of Communication, part of their special Re(sounding) Pedagogies Issue
2/6: Launch of SkottegatenFM at 88.66FM, a 3-month FM micro-radio station transmitting from my apartment in Bergen and from the homes of neighbors. Listening station available at Hordaland Kunstsenter. Weekly schedules posted here
2/6: Beginning a work residency from home with the wonderful BEK (Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst) to create SkottegatenFM.
Winter & Spring 2019
5/20: A very special SketchPad episode: The Psyche and Cupid Radio Hour in collaboration with writer & animator Dılşa Perençick phoning in from Finland.
Live in Greenfield, MA on WMCB 107.9fm AND the show will be simultaneously broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland's Centre for Contemporary Art as part of the magical two-week radioart fest Radiophrenia (13-26 May 2019.)
4/26+27: Strange Radio comes to my home town, Great Falls, MA as part of the Radical Interconnected Fest with Eggtooth Productions. Live sound documentary perfomance with radio transmission in an old church! 7pm both nights. More info and tickets: https://www.eggtooth.org/experience-now
3/31: With thanks to Bojana Knežević for creating a super stereo mix, our TONSPUR_collaboration: A Chance Encounter is being broadcast on Radio Orange 94.0fm in Vienna, Austria.
3/26: Guest speaker in Soundscapes: An Exploration of Identity through Music and Sound, taught by Professor Yvette Janine Jackson, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
3/25: Strange Radio as Method, public talk at Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI), Amherst College, 4:30-6:30pm with reception.
Reni Hofmüller and KW
image by G. Weckwerth, A. Seme, K. Werner
3/18-20: Dirty Ear Forum, Vienna, Austria. As part of this I'll be teaching a radio autoethnography workshop in Hörvergessen, a seminar taught by artist Ricarda Denzer at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien/ University of Applied Arts Vienna.
3/7-3/11: A visit to Stockholm's EMS (Elektonmusicstudion) with Yvette Jackson.
3/1-2: ¡Radio Audity!
A Radio Art Workshop in Helsinki, Finland, as part of sound art festival ÄÄNIAALTO. All welcome, all levels.
2/24: Opening of TONSPUR_collaboration: Yvette Janine Jackson (USA) / Bojana Knežević (SRB)/ Katarina Petrovic (SRB) / Karen Werner (USA): A Chance Encounter (for 4 artists, 8 speakers and 16 questions). A sound installation about trust, Vienna's MuseumsQuartier Tonspur Passage until April 27.
1/7/19-2/28/19: Two month art residency at Saari Residence - Kone Foundation near Mynämäki (southwest) Finland.
photo credit: Jussi Virkkumaa / Kone Foundation
5/20: A very special SketchPad episode: The Psyche and Cupid Radio Hour in collaboration with writer & animator Dılşa Perençick phoning in from Finland.
Live in Greenfield, MA on WMCB 107.9fm AND the show will be simultaneously broadcast from Glasgow, Scotland's Centre for Contemporary Art as part of the magical two-week radioart fest Radiophrenia (13-26 May 2019.)
4/26+27: Strange Radio comes to my home town, Great Falls, MA as part of the Radical Interconnected Fest with Eggtooth Productions. Live sound documentary perfomance with radio transmission in an old church! 7pm both nights. More info and tickets: https://www.eggtooth.org/experience-now
3/31: With thanks to Bojana Knežević for creating a super stereo mix, our TONSPUR_collaboration: A Chance Encounter is being broadcast on Radio Orange 94.0fm in Vienna, Austria.
3/26: Guest speaker in Soundscapes: An Exploration of Identity through Music and Sound, taught by Professor Yvette Janine Jackson, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.
3/25: Strange Radio as Method, public talk at Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI), Amherst College, 4:30-6:30pm with reception.
Reni Hofmüller and KW
image by G. Weckwerth, A. Seme, K. Werner
3/18-20: Dirty Ear Forum, Vienna, Austria. As part of this I'll be teaching a radio autoethnography workshop in Hörvergessen, a seminar taught by artist Ricarda Denzer at Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien/ University of Applied Arts Vienna.
3/7-3/11: A visit to Stockholm's EMS (Elektonmusicstudion) with Yvette Jackson.
3/1-2: ¡Radio Audity!
A Radio Art Workshop in Helsinki, Finland, as part of sound art festival ÄÄNIAALTO. All welcome, all levels.
2/24: Opening of TONSPUR_collaboration: Yvette Janine Jackson (USA) / Bojana Knežević (SRB)/ Katarina Petrovic (SRB) / Karen Werner (USA): A Chance Encounter (for 4 artists, 8 speakers and 16 questions). A sound installation about trust, Vienna's MuseumsQuartier Tonspur Passage until April 27.
1/7/19-2/28/19: Two month art residency at Saari Residence - Kone Foundation near Mynämäki (southwest) Finland.
photo credit: Jussi Virkkumaa / Kone Foundation
