Radio Arts Space combines seven independent curatorial perspectives and approaches in its exhibition format (Manja Ristić, Maria Papadomanolaki, Milica Pekić, Ilari Valbonesi, Brane Zorman, Tevž Logar and Robert Sakrowski). The invited curators were given a common starting point: they could choose to put together a selection of works, based on an open call, released by radioCona in May 2011 and/or to choose the authors on their own. This is why some of artists in the exhibition appear several times.The total of about 15 hours of material, consisting of 46 artworks from 22 countries was included in the exhibition, not so that we would let ourselves get carried away by its sheer volume, but in order to generate new questions, gaining a diversity of experience and discover more possible ways of reading and perceiving Sound art.Step by step, layer by layer, you are encouraged to construct, discover and question; we invite you to visit the exhibition and interviews with curators, the rich set of accompanying events (workshops with Torsten Michaelson and Robert Sakrowski), the live writer (Petra Kapš), the lecture by Elisabeth Zimmermann, the curators’ presentations, the live events by Robert Sakrowski, Ilari Valbonesi and Marie Papadomanolaki and also to listen to the broadcast on FM 88.8MHz as well as on-line.To wholly experience the exhibition is not an easy task, since listening requires a considerable investment of time and concentration; the same time and concentration, which, in contemporary society, are increasingly being replaced by instantaneous visual pleasures and the capitalistic appropriation of the self.
Jasmina Založnik, Irena Pivka
Exhibition Locations: FM 88.8 MHz, stream http://www.radiocona.si/, ŠKUC Gallery Ljubljana
Listening room: ŠKUC Gallery, Pixxelpoint festival, Ljubljana Marketplace, portable MP3 players
Broadcast partners : CoLaboRadio (Berlin), NAWG (New York), Novi Radio Beograd, ROMA Radio Art Fair (IT), RAM Live (IT)
