Strands # Who Cares? (Part One)

Sunday 18th August 2019 00:00 - 03:00 BST

Strands is a programme of digital radio art commissions available to UK-based sound and radio artists under the age of 28 - supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Now: part one of "Who Cares? A Radio Tale", a special broadcast project live from Gasworks, curated by MA students at the Royal College of Art, commissioned as part of Resonance's ‘Strands’ supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Tracklist

00:00: introduction. After the sound piece ‘Picture yourself as a block of melting butter (exercise 1)’ by Eva Fàbregas, curators Alba Folgado, Naz Bescan and Benedetta d’Ettorre introduce “Who cares? A radio tale” and open a conversation between academic Temi Odumosu with artist Eva Fàbregas and designer Ilaria Palmieri, who talk about their work in Gasworks.

00:35: live performance. Introduced by curators Naz Bescan and Benedetta d’Ettorre, artist Claudia Pagès presents her live performance of sound with spoken word, based on her expanded novella ‘Her Hair’, in which she portrays the body as a harvester and a producer of immaterial objects and queer matter.

01:00: sound piece. Introduced by curator Harriet Costello, artist Céline Berger plays her new sound piece ‘Transfers’ comprising recordings of conversations and noises from her time spent on a wind farm in the Baltic Sea, as the only woman in an unusually harsh working environment.

01:15: conversation. Introduced by curator Agata Kik, academic Temi Odumosu is in conversation with artists Claudia Pagès and Salomé Voegelin. The conversation revolves around the theme of questioning affective labour through the medium of sound.

01:50: sound seminar. Introduced by curator Ibrahim Cisse. Jon Wozencroft, senior tutor at the Royal College of Art, leads a sound seminar en titled ‘The Work and the Living’ with a carefully selected mix of records.

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