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cardboard cartoon figures of board surfers on waves of distant ice ages publicity for pubic hair and wrinkled bellies
anorexic skeletons disguised as bones of dinosaurs
fascinating drawings of young children,

curiously smiling with white teeth of disillusion

In a state of introvert depression rage I go to war,
I go to fight my own anger
with the violence of my own blood
on the brown battlefield under a dessert of black clouds

I am seeing myself standing there
but I am looking inward with closed eyes
fatigued by useless attempts to stay human in a hopelessly sick world

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there’s an impenetrable forest,
a forest inside myself
and inside this forest, there’s a clearing. I am standing there,
in the middle of the clearing
of the forest
inside of myself
there’s no animals moving about.. except for insects
small little insects
crawling around
with the speed of light
….
segmented legs
weird flies
…
a thousand faceted eyes
observe me
I feel their gaze piercing
my own
harnass
….

through bark and bush
there’s only a slow peculation of light
a glimmering reflection
of what used to be hope
seeps through the leaveless branches of berches pale bodied
their skinns inscribed with badly healed wounds as if this groove remembers
a wound I have not yet spoken
…

But if we change perspective ….

I am sitting in front of the open window my legs are a curtain
through the open window
I see a field of refined flowers wheeping, still in the wind

there’s a lot of berchtrees.
my skinn is waving
it is a waving curtain
my skinn is a curtain, waving in the wind ….

the waving enlightens in me a burning desire
the waving enlightens in me an inseasable desire …

and through the open window I see
…

cardboard cartoon figures of board surfers on waves of distant ice ages publicity for pubic hair and wrinkled bellies
anorexic skeletons disguised as bones of dinosaurs
fascinating drawings of young children,

curiously smiling with white teeth of disillusion

In a state of introvert depression rage I go to war,
I go to fight my own anger
with the violence of my own blood
on the brown battlefield under a dessert of black clouds

I am seeing myself standing there
but I am looking inward with closed eyes
fatigued by useless attempts to stay human in a hopelessly sick world

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Radia show curated by Carine Demange for Radio Campus Bruxelles.

Each week one member of the Radia Network produces a show for all the others. The Radia Network emerged from a series of meetings, clandestine events, late-night club discussions, and a lot of email exchanges between cultural radio producers across Europe. The topics vary and the reasons for forming a network are many, but Radia has become a concrete manifestation of the desire to use radio as an art form. The approaches differ, as do the local contexts; from commissioned radio art works to struggles for frequencies to copyright concerns, all the radios share the goal of an audio space where something different can happen. That different is also a form in the making––radio sounds different in each city, on each frequency. Taking radio as an art form, claiming that space for creative production in the mediascape and cracking apart the notion of radio, is what Radia does.

It is producing radio stuff that is hard to describe. Some of it can be labeled radio art, or experimental radio, or creative radio. Sometimes it talks, sometimes it doesn’t. It can be noisy, or a kind of soundscape, or a documentary, a document, a talk, a performance. Each and every week, one of the partners will provide the network program, commissioned and produced especially for this purpose: being broadcast by all the partners and made available online.

Some things have to be said about all those partners. They are radio stations, of the independent, non-commercial, community, cultural species. They all speak different languages, and this should create interesting problems. Although initially they were all European radio stations this has changed over time, and Radia has become not only larger but also more diverse: 22 partners in 14 countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Duuu (Paris, FR)
* ∏node (Mulhouse, Paris, FR)
* Diffusion (Sydney, AU)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio One 91 FM (Dunedin, NZ)
* Radio Panik (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Papesse (Firenze, IT)
* Radio Student (Ljubljana, SI)
* radio x (Frankfurt/Main, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* RadioWORM (Rotterdam, NL)
* Reboot.fm (Berlin, DE)
* Resonance FM (London, UK)
* Soundart Radio (Dartington, UK)
* TEA FM (Zaragoza, ES)
* Usmaradio (San Marino, SM)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT)
* Mobile Radio (Ürzig, DE)
* Rádio Zero (Lisboa, PT)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

Syndicated By

* Campus Paris (Paris, FR)
* Harrogate Community Radio (North Yorkshire, UK)
* KZradio (Tel Aviv, IL)
* Noise Radio (Zwolle, NL)
* Radio ARA (Luxembourg, LU)

More information at http://radia.fm