[cma-l] Press Release: Radio Revolten - International Radio Art Festival

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*Radio Revolten - International Radio Art Festival*
*1st to 30th October 2016 Halle (Saale), Germany*

Radio as a multi-faceted art form will be presented at a four-week
festival, which will take place in October 2016 in Halle (Saale) in
Germany. 70 artists from 17 countries will present contemporary radio art
at 15 locations in the city in the form of installations, performances,
concerts and interventions. On air, the festival will broadcast on the FM
frequency 99.3 MHz in Halle. 35 radio stations across the world will relay
parts of the programme, and Resonance Extra in Brighton (UK) will take it
over entirely.

Many of the festival performances will take place in the evenings at the
Radio Revolten Club at Rathausstraße 3. Next door at number 4, Radio
Revolten will host the exhibition Das Grosse Rauschen: The Metamorphosis of
Radio, presenting cutting edge installations over two floors. A short
distance away at the City Museum there will be a companion exhibition
'Invisible Waves' - The history of broadcasting and the attempt at its
appropriation in Halle (Saale). The conference Radio Space is the Place
will be held at the University of Halle. Other Radio Revolten venues
include the Botanical Garden, the Hausmann's Towers and Red Tower of the
market square and the Moritzburg Art Museum.

The festival will feature artistic works ranging from the opening
performance event of the award winning Resonance Radio Orchestra (UK), to
individual daily encounters with the artist Marold Langer Philippsen (SK).
A performance by Alessandro Bosetti (IT) will take place in cooperation
with Deutschlandradio Kultur. The festival programme features performances
and installations by pioneers of radio art such as Joyce Hinterding (AU),
Tetsuo Kogawa (JN), and Gregory Whitehead (US). Radio Revolten is run by
Radio Corax and co-hosted by the city of Halle (Saale). The German Federal
Cultural Foundation is the main sponsor of the festival. The team of
curators comprises the radio artists Knut Aufermann, Anna Friz and Sarah
Washington, the editor of ORF Kunstradio Elisabeth Zimmermann and the
programme coordinator of Radio Corax Ralf Wendt. Radio Revolten will be the
largest and most comprehensive festival of radio art ever to be held
worldwide.

*RADIO REVOLTEN OVERVIEW*

*Radio Revolten Club*
At Rathausstraße 3 there will be daily radio art performances, transmitted
live at 20:00 CET on the Radio Revolten frequency and streamed via the
website.

*Radio Revolten Central*
Rathausstraße 4 will host the exhibition of contemporary art featuring
international artists exploring the theme of transmission ecologies and
unstable, fluctuating transmission systems. It will also be home to the
festival office and radio station.

*Radio Revolten Conference*
A two-day conference on the subject of radio art will be carried out in
cooperation with the Experimental Radio programme of the Bauhaus University
Weimar.

*Radio Revolten Radio*
In the festival studio of Radio Revolten a 24/7 radio art programme will be
created from the radiophonic work of guest artists alongside offerings from
radio stations around the world. This will be broadcast on 99.3 FM in
Halle, and streamed on www.radiorevolten.net. A newspaper format programme
guide will invite people in the transmission area to both listen in and
venture out to discover the transmission venues across the city.

In addition, a new alliance of independent broadcasters will form with a
potential reach of 200 million listeners across the world. 35 radio
stations have agreed to broadcast productions from Radio Revolten including
Deutschlandradio Kultur (Germany), ORF Ö1 (Austria), Resonance FM (London),
Wave Farm WGXC 90.7 FM (New York), FSK (Hamburg), and members of the Radia
network and the European Broadcast Union group Ars Acustica.

*Accompanying programme*
Entitled Trans-Positionen [Trans-Positions] the Werkleitz Festival 2016
will explore radio as a form of acoustic art through diverse media. Curator
Martin Hartung has invited Hampus Lindwall (SE) and Leif Elggren (SE) to
present an audio-visual performance in the Moritzkirche activating
Friedrich Jurgenson’s Audioscopic Research Archive, on loan from the ZKM in
Karlsruhe. The archival collection will be on display throughout Radio
Revolten in the foyer of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. A
multi-part international film series at the Kino Zazie curated by Florian
Wust will explore the relationship between sound and the electronic image.

The German Association of Free Radios (BFR) has located its annual meeting
in Halle, and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
will host their European conference during the festival, bringing hundreds
of additional radio-oriented visitors to the city.

*Sponsors*
The main sponsors of Radio Revolten are the German Federal Cultural
Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) and the Media Authority of
Saxony-Anhalt (Medienanstalt Sachsen-Anhalt). The city of Halle is the
co-host, and the patron is the Lord Mayor Dr. Bernd Wiegand. Radio Revolten
is a project of
Radio Corax.

Web: http://www.radiorevolten.net

Contact:
Helen Thein, Press Officer
Radio Revolten
Radio Corax
Unterberg 11
06108 Halle
helen-thein at radiorevolten.net

Tel. +49 (0)151 75034547
Photos & logos: http://radiorevolten.net/en/press/

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