Radio Mischpoke — Radio Art Collective Halle-Berlin

 The artists’ col­lec­tive has exist­ed since 1998 in var­i­ous con­fig­u­ra­tions, start­ing with Ralf Wendt, Thies Streifin­ger (Halle) and Burghard Vogel (Berlin). Since 2016, Tina Klat­te (Halle) and, since 2018, Jas­mi­na Al-Qaisi (Berlin) have worked along­side the found­ing trio.

Guest artists are reg­u­lar­ly involved (Masha Kar­pushi­na, Natalia Aceve­do Fer­reira – Berlin; There­sa Ehren­berg – Leipzig; Elis­a­beth Rän­del, Abir Tawakawal­na – Halle; Ute Seitz, Shoore­sh Fezoni – Hei­del­berg; Claire Ser­res – Paris; and Lar­ry Jones – Chica­go). The radio art col­lec­tive uses inde­pen­dent radio sta­tions for FM broad­casts – such as Radio Corax in Halle, Radio Kash­mir in Berlin, Radio Bermuda­funk in Mannheim, Radio Blau in Leipzig, Radio Orange in Vien­na, and var­i­ous inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tions – to con­nect per­for­mances in pub­lic spaces with the pub­lic sphere of radio waves.

The artists also work as solo per­form­ers and cura­tors of sound and radio art (Wendt – RadioRe­volten 2006 and 2016 Halle; Klat­te – documenta14 radio 2017 Kas­sel, Berlin; Wendt – Any­body out there D21 Leipzig; Al-Qaisi – Lis­ten­ing Ses­sions Savvy Berlin).
Col­lab­o­ra­tive projects have been under­tak­en with var­i­ous media orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing Deutsch­land­funk Kul­tur, Deutsch­land­funk, SWR2, ORF Kun­stra­dio Vien­na, Hei­del­berg The­atre, the Han­del Fes­ti­val Halle, Moon­ah Radio Tas­ma­nia, the Tbil­isi Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale, Geor­gia, Space21 (Kur­dis­tan, North­ern Iraq), radia.fm, “mobile radio” Ürzig, IBA Thuringia, the Exper­i­men­tal Radio pro­gram at the Bauhaus Uni­ver­si­ty Weimar, the Hyder­abad Lit­er­a­ture Fes­ti­val and Uni­ver­si­ty, and sev­er­al times with the Goethe-Insti­tut as a part­ner for inter­na­tion­al projects (Sibiu, Roma­nia; Kin­shasa, DRC-Berlin; Dakar, Sene­gal; Prague, Czech Repub­lic).

Ralf Wendt shares his expe­ri­ences with mobile radio as an artis­tic prac­tice, both in his teach­ing and through col­lab­o­ra­tions with var­i­ous media orga­ni­za­tions, art schools, and radio sta­tions.

Jas­mi­na Al-Qaisi

Ralf Wendt

Tina Klat­te

Thies Streifin­ger

Burghard Vogel

 

 

 

 

 

Logo by Elsa Westre­ich­er 

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