Radio Art Residency 2023 en Weimar | Convocatoria abierta

In 2023 and 2024, the radio art residency is part of the overarching roof project “Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio”: In this artistic research project, artists, scientists, media professionals and listeners from the different regions will address various questions about listening in its diversity and its transcultural interconnections.

The aim of the scholarship is to promote creative artistic work and to support the realisation of new artistic works that deal with the thematic focuses of the Listening to the World project.

During their two-month stay in Weimar fellows are invited to produce a piece on the below-mentioned questions and topics for the sound art broadcasting slot Klangkunst at Deutschlandfunk Kultur and to explore and transcend the boundaries of sound and radio art in interdisciplinary constellations, to be inspired by the intercultural dialogue at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the cultural and classical city of Weimar.

In addition, they will have the opportunity to gain a closer insight into and network of contemporary art in Germany and international sound and radio art in particular.

The fellowship is curatorially supervised and technically supported by Experimental Radio at Bauhaus-University Weimar.

LISTENING TO THE WORLD – 100 YEARS OF RADIO

Hardly any other cultural technique has had such a lasting influence on our coexistence as listening to the radio. Radio unites peoples and creates identity, but it is also used for propaganda purposes and as an instrument of espionage and power. It has been a medium of globalisation from the beginning and plays a key role in colonial history.

Every region of the world has its own stories of listening and not listening, of communities coming together and dividing around radio. However, as radio waves do not stop at national borders, these stories are interconnected in many ways.

“Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio” wants to anchor the historical connection between radio and globalisation in the consciousness of a broad public in and outside Germany. The innovation potential which grows from the cultural heritage of the worldwide radio landscape and the cultural technique of listening to the radio should become audible.

How has radio shaped our listening over the last 100 years? What practices and methods of listening have different cultures developed? How does radio relate to power structures and colonial history? What contribution could a culture of listening make in an increasingly globalised and at the same time polarised world in the future?

Further information | WEIMAR: RADIO ART RESIDENCY 2023