Tune in for a special livestream from this year's Radio Insomnia live from Eora/Sydney featuring performances by CORIN, Moss Hopkins, Peter Lenaerts, Boy Michael, Gail Priest, Akil Ahamat, Sky Chariot, Sachin da Silva, Szem, and Guests.

Bounce, nothing holds. Split. Kick. The night is wide. Bounce.
Bounce with strength. Enter the night. Sustain.
The pleasure of a night without rest. Resilience, but also energy. Bouncing back is recovery, not escape. Recharge for political fights, bounce back.
Release from the normativity of sleep, and productivity.
Share our night. To bounce back; to build trust.

Radio Insomnia returns to Gadigal lands for a new edition featuring new commissions and contributions by Australian artists and open mics for an all-night program, live to air.

From the cavernous space of a downtown’s electrical substation to a secret tiny warehouse, we’ll explore the intricacies of night-time listening, we’ll be led by voices, dragged by time, and by King, with or without sleep. We may be diverted by inner voices, led by eerie textural sounds and open to deprogramming ourselves.

Radio Insomnia is an invitation to listen with insomnia, rather than against it, for productivity. Drawing on radio as a medium with its qualities for fostering social relations, and night-time as an intimate space for listening, we aim at developing radiophonic devices for night communities.

Radio Insomnia is interested in the political and poetic forces of waking at night, whether by constraint or by choice. Our starting point is that in the extractivist model of our late capitalist society, sleep is depoliticised: unproblematized as a resource for productivity, which is part of a very normative and synchronized schedule driven by labour and moral values.

Whereas periods of wakefulness at night, were not always considered to be an illness and deficiency. Listening and other activities in the middle of the night were practised as part of day-to-day life prior to the industrial revolution. with two periods of sleep, with a first and second sleep, punctuated by wake. Across cultures, night-time is also a time for orality, for talking and listening. Commonly understood as an alarm bell, insomnia is a signal that something is wrong. With Radio Insomnia this is the signal that we want to follow and also broadcast.

With Radio Insomnia, we ask -- What is the potential of listening at night when wakefulness is embraced rather than endured? In other words, what does it mean to listen “with” insomnia, rather than against it, for productivity?

Radio Insomnia unfolds through live broadcasts, sound installations, and the creation of social spaces and. Night-time broadcasts are shaped by roundtable discussions, performances, artist commissions, and listening sessions, or include a live transmission from the public space.

Created by and for sleepless bodies, Radio Insomnia was born of the collaboration between curator Anabelle Lacroix and artist Nicolas Montgermont.

This project is supported by the University of New South Wales, MITACS, and the Consulate General of France in Montréal as part of the research project The Sociability of Sleep by McGill University and the Université de Montréal.