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Radia Season 19 show 207 "Sparkles" from Soundart Radio, Dartington, UK
Lucinda writes: This is a joint effort from several artists, some pieces made for Soundart Radio's "First Spark" festival in February 2009, remixed here for Radia.
We thought we'd celebrate switching on our new transmitter (1000 times more powerful than the old one) by remembering the forgotten festival of Imbolc, and the first stirrings of light and warm weather. You'll hear me going on about this in the introduction to the show and making some excuse about being a rural station.
So this show starts with Chris Mockridge's recording of building and lighting a fire in their (old, cold) home… then an Imbolc piece by Jackie Juno, like me she's interested in new ways of engaging with these ancient festivals
http://brianabbott.info/jackie_juno.htm
Then there's quite a big chunk of our new neighbour Ergo Phizmiz's "The invention of Birds" which was an installation in the Dartington Gallery www.ergophizmiz.com actually this bit is from the opening night so it's Ergo and DJ Salinger together sort of DJing along to the installed piece. I didn't intend to use quite so much of it but it was hard to choose a short bit. There's a bit more of it later on.
Then there's "For Emma" a spoken word thing by Isobel Anderson, who used to be a student here www.myspace.com/isobelanderson There's a thing by Joe Prosser, a writing student here at Dartington… does it have a title? I don't know.
Lastly "For Bridget" by Graham Burchell www.gburchell.com Bridget is St. Bridget and a goddess too, the "Bridie" that Jackie mentioned earlier in the show and Imbolc is her time.
Season 20 show 219 Closing Down, by GilbertandGrape from Soundart Radio
CLOSING DOWN OVER RADIO BROADCAST
During 2009 GilbertandGrape are closing down, reprocessing all their things and returning the Moose to the Sunset. As we do this we invite you to join us on the Radia broadcast to take part in drawing exercises. On the special Radia broadcast we will draw one of our things together with our radio broadcast audience. We will then pass the object into our local economy for further use by giving it to our nearest thrift store.
HOW TO BE WITH US DURING THIS EVENT
GilbertandGrape will sketch the object in front of the microphone. Making the drawing on a chart ruled off into many squares. Radio listeners provide themselves with a similar chart and when GilbertandGrape announce the line is going through a certain numbered square the listners can then duplicate this on their own grid.
YOU WILL NEED
1x A4 paper with 3cm grid (DOWNLOAD HERE www.gilbertandgrape.co.uk or draw your own)
1x pencil
Each drawing exercise takes approx 15mins.
RECYCLE YOUR DRAWINGS
Post us your drawings
Closing Down c/o gilbertandgrape, Soundart Radio, The Gallery, Dartington, Devon, TQ9 6EJ, UK or email them to drawing@gilbertandgrape.co.uk
WHO ARE GILBERTANDGRAPE?
gilbertandgrape is a collaborative project between Helen Pritchard (UK) and Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh (N). Established in 2003 the artists share a background in performance writing at Dartington College of Arts, UK. GilbertandGrape work within a genre they call performance journalism. The work often takes the form of videos, performance, texts and off-line/online work which explores a longing to collaborate with each other and the people we meet. We make practical and collaborative explorations of the idea of Artist as Reader/ Audience As Reader. Epic actions, amateurish events and gigantic endeavours which share authority with readers in pursuit of disrupting the social roles of reader and writer/artist. The work is driven by a desire to connect with others. It engages with ideas of 'liveness' and physical presence/absence. Using the body as the mode of perceiving scale from symmetry and balance, to the grotesque and disproportionate. Central to this is the idea of subjectivity of perspective and the individuality of viewpoint. The contemplation on ideas (especially in relation to technology) and concepts which without the body have no scale of reference. These thoughts surface in performance action/rituals and live reading/writing We have shown work internationally since 2003 most recently include transmodernage (USA), KISSS, conical gallery (Australia) and Rogaland Kunst Senter (Norway). We recently published a field note book of the three year durational performance Lone Ranging Romance in How2 magazine.
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We produce a weekly radio show that is broadcast by each of the member radio stations. Our shows represent the local artistic community of each station, whilst at the same time these new works point to an emergent collective notion of self-determined art for radio.