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From the Transmission Art Archive: "Underground (Codes)" Radio Edit (2022) by Yvette Janine Jackson and "Perpetual Drift" (2020) by Colleen Keough
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"Underground (Codes)" Radio Edit (2022) by Yvette Janine Jackson
Audible as one ascends into the Wave Farm pine forest is Yvette Janine Jackson's installation titled Underground (Codes). The installation is composed of two radio operas, Destination Freedom (2017), and Underground (Codes) (2022). The latter was created specifically for this installation at Wave Farm and is a response, or companion, to Destination Freedom. Both works are amplified by steel projection cowls donated to Wave Farm by artist Charles Lindsay from his Code Humpback installations.
Underground (Codes) (2022)
Writes Jackson:
- The Earth-planet is the archivist of our past and future (selves)
While we fight for truth(s) with soil underfoot
She transmits atemporal memories to the heavens
Destination Freedom (2017/2022) is part of a series of radio operas themed around the Middle Passage stage of the transatlantic slave trade. The journey begins in the hull of a cargo ship transporting Africans to the Americas; time collapses and expands as the vessel morphs into a spacecraft on an elusive search for freedom. Jackson's radio operas are intentionally abstract, allowing space for listeners to draw upon their own experiences and preexisting knowledge in order to collaborate a narrative as the story unfolds.
This project is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
"Perpetual Drift" (2020) by Colleen Keough
The earth has undergone drastic climate changes, and a crew aboard a lost ship at sea struggle to adapt to an uncertain future created by a series of tragic events. The ship's crew are: Ether (a transmissions artist), the Captain, the Navigator (a depressed robot poet), Echo (the mythical nymph), and the Specialist (Scientist), a female scientist who specializes in rare botanics. The story embodies environmental concerns we face as a collective human family, and the death of old structures giving way to new life forms, systems, and organizations. Perpetual Drift was recorded in my home studio. I performed each character's voice, and composed the electro-acoustic soundtrack.
Tune in for selections from Wave Farm's Transmission Art Archive, a specialized online resource of artists' experiments with the electromagnetic spectrum in form or concept. The resource contains primary materials from early microradio broadcast collaborations among Brooklyn-based artists in the mid-nineties, transmission works created by the hundreds of artists who have participated in Wave Farm projects, broadcasts, and residencies, as well as historical and contemporary projects that comprise the canon of the genre.
Visit the Transmission Art Archive here.