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Strange Radio - Ongoing
Series of assemblage radio broadcasts about time and Holocaust postmemory in Vienna, Austria. Currently experienced as live changing narrowcast radio performances.
Series of assemblage radio broadcasts about time and Holocaust postmemory in Vienna, Austria. Currently experienced as live changing narrowcast radio performances.
Receiving, transmitting, disarming, dispersing...
![Episode 7: Haus, part 2: Zirkus Strange Radio](http://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/karenwer/big/8392.jpg?1517785422)
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Episode 7: Haus, part 2: Zirkus
The old circuses on nearby Zirkusgasse provide a strange form: an antenna “aerial" artist, telephone high wire act, multi-headed speaking choir, flea circus and performers. Initially created as 8-channel sound installation at projectroom MAG3 in Vienna. Artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth Kelvin, and Der Sprechchor led by Bruno Pisek.
The old circuses on nearby Zirkusgasse provide a strange form: an antenna “aerial" artist, telephone high wire act, multi-headed speaking choir, flea circus and performers. Initially created as 8-channel sound installation at projectroom MAG3 in Vienna. Artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth Kelvin, and Der Sprechchor led by Bruno Pisek.
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Episode 6: Haus, part 1: Covenant of the Tongue
Psalms, kabbalah, mud, vocalizations, my family's home on Novaragasse, occupied as a "Judenhaus." Initially produced as 8-channel public sound installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien 2018. Along with Haus part 2, adapted for ORF/01's Kunstradio in April 2018.
Psalms, kabbalah, mud, vocalizations, my family's home on Novaragasse, occupied as a "Judenhaus." Initially produced as 8-channel public sound installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien 2018. Along with Haus part 2, adapted for ORF/01's Kunstradio in April 2018.
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Episode 5: Strange Time(s)
First broadcast on Dec. 16, 2016
Time flows in many directions; Zen master Dogen; the touch of older skin; a visit to the therapist.
First broadcast on Dec. 16, 2016
Time flows in many directions; Zen master Dogen; the touch of older skin; a visit to the therapist.
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Episode 4: Strange Language
First broadcast on Dec 9, 2016
First broadcast on Dec 9, 2016
Hoover the harbor seal; German for beginners; songs by Vicky Wehrmeister in her made up languages; Der Sprechchor mummerings, and the Wenker German dialect experiments of old. Trauma interrupts coherent thought –and the only language possible becomes strange.
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Episode 3: Postcards from the Second Basement
First broadcast on Dec. 2, 2016
First broadcast on Dec. 2, 2016
Nazi-era madness at the Medical School's Pharmacology Department; postcards of the Austrian Resistance; a father and young daughter gently latching fingers and eyes.
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Episode 2: The Stranger (12 min. excerpt)
First broadcast on Nov. 25, 2016
A 1911 recording of Exodus; the overgrown Währinger Jewish cemetery being cleaned by members of the Green Party; meanings of the name Gershon, son of Zipporah and Moses; the stranger.
First broadcast on Nov. 25, 2016
A 1911 recording of Exodus; the overgrown Währinger Jewish cemetery being cleaned by members of the Green Party; meanings of the name Gershon, son of Zipporah and Moses; the stranger.
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Episode 1: Transmission
A text found in the sidewalk; a ritual for radiophonics; a 1913 recording of Viennese Cantor Jakob Bauer; a duet for field recording (featuring my mother walking on Novaragasse) and phoned-in science of transmission.
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Episode 0: Jetzt Höre Ich/ Now I Hear (7:30)
An early dispatch from Vienna produced for Live Art Magazine, Northampton, MA, 2016. Selected for International Features Conference, Prague in 2018.
An early dispatch from Vienna produced for Live Art Magazine, Northampton, MA, 2016. Selected for International Features Conference, Prague in 2018.
My body knew where to go, arrived at a door and looked down. My mother reads some of the German and English.