A live performance recorded in Les Ateliers Magellan, Nantes, France, on the 4th of July 2024.

With: XM Tran, sound, voices, linocut, ink on paper & Barylin Tone, baritone guitar, objects.

About the performance:
"Naufrage". Première édition: Fleches d'etranges jours; nuits source de liberte. ["Sinking". First edition: Arrows of strange days; nights source of freedom.] The book “The Castaways of Barbados” was published in 1904 and describes the accidental arrival of a white family on a Caribbean island. The characters are first horrified by the lack of local comfort, then frightened and fascinated by the “savages” populating the place, as well as amused to kill animals for sport. As a child of a Vietnamese refugee whose ship trajectories are not just accidental mishaps, the book turns into a collection of deeply personal and decolonial poetic works.

About the artist:
As a queer person of Vietnamese descent, XM TRAN’s artistic work focuses on the issue of identity, and in particular on the void left by exile, with the need to recreate fictions to repair family memory. By celebrating the diversity of identities of the Vietnamese diaspora, the artist aspires to highlight their ghosts through revolutionary practices such as sound creation, poetry and linocut, between technical mythologies and fantasized landscapes.

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: 17 partners in nine countries and growing all the time.

Radia Stations

* Campus Paris (Paris, FR)
* CFRC 101.9 FM (Kingston, CA)
* CKUT (Montréal, CA)
* JET FM (Nantes, FR)
* Kanal 103 (Skopje, MK)
* Orange 94.0 (Vienna, AT)
* Radio Campus (Brussels, BE)
* Radio Corax (Halle, DE)
* Radio Grenouille (Marseille, FR)
* Radio Helsinki (Graz, AT)
* Radio Nova (Oslo, NO)
* 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)
* Wave Farm WGXC 90.7-FM (New York, USA)
* XL Air (Brussels, BE)

Affiliates

* Kunstradio (Vienna, AT)

More information at http://radia.fm