The free radio group LIGNA exists since 1995. LIGNA consists of the
media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners, and
Torsten Michaelsen, who since the early nineties have been working at
the "Freies Sender Kombinat" (FSK), a public non-profit radio station
in Hamburg. In several shows and performances they have been
investigating the importance of dispersal in radio as well as of the
radio. One of the main focuses is to refer to forgotten and remote
possibilities of radio use in order to develop new forms of interactive
practices. Another emphasis has been placed on the development of
concepts and the production of performative audio plays in order to
find out how radio can intervene in public and controlled spaces, so
that its public nature reappears in the form of uncontrollable
situations
The “Radio Ballet” is an excellent example of the latter: it is a radio play produced for the collective reception in certain public places. It gives the dispersed radio listeners the opportunity, to subvert the regulations of the space. Held for the first time in Hamburg’s Central Station in 2002, this focused on how radio can intervene in public and controlled spaces, so that its public nature reappears in the form of uncontrollable situations. Yet, Ligna's performances aim to confront the privatised, controlled production of capitalism with the dispersed, yet collective, uncanny and public production of the radio.
The Radio Ballet brought back excluded gestures of deviant behavior were invited to enter the station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.).
These suggestions were interrupted by reflections on the public space and on the Radio ballet itself.
Is it possible to subvert the logic of the corporate city, if people do not subject themselves to it anymore?
Come and find out!
Become part of the LIGNA Radio Ballet in the Leidsestraat on Saturday, 2nd of September 2006!
The Radio Ballet starts at 14:00. You can get radios at De Balie from 13:30 on. But better bring your own radios, or mobile phones with receiver! The Ballet will be broadcasted on the Frequency of
Radio Patapoe 88,3 FM and
Radio OER 90,3 FMI Am[not]sterdam! Dispersed collectivity instead common identity! Don´t subject to the corporate city - become alien by public radio listening!
Handy frequency list To be able to find the radioballet at transistor radio's witch bad frequency readings, here's an overview of strong radio stations nearby.
For analogue tuning radio's seen from left to right or with "scanradio's" starting from
reset:
- 88.1 - CAZ! Commercial pop music.
- 88.3 - RADIO PATAPOE Alternative music, experimental sounds, noise, etc. Dutch and english speaking presenters. Free radio, no commercials.
- 88.9 - Radio Noord-Holland Dutch news and middle of the road music. (Very strong regional broadcast).
- 89.6 - 100%NL Commercial urban, pop music.
- 90.1 - Ujala Radio Indian music and hindu speaking DJ's.
- 90.3 - RADIO OER Simultanious sound with Radio Patapoe this saturday (only on air at special events).
- 90.7 - Arrow Jazz FM Commercial jazz music.
- 91.1 - Slam! FM Commercial dance, pop music.
