Ré-affirmer le merveilleux comme une manière de ré-enchanter le réel

Les rives du Léman ont toujours fasciné des artistes, écrivain·es et penseur·euses venu·es des quatre coins du monde.

Nous faisons l’hypothèse que vivre avec nos histoires, nos légendes et nos mythes fondateurs, est une manière de nous ancrer et de nous régénérer en tant que communautés, et que la transmission culturelle est un processus qui contribue à connecter les individus et à perpétuer des groupes humains.

Aux prémices de ce projet nous avons constitué une équipe de recherche pluridisciplinaire, réunissant des artistes et des scientifiques local·es ainsi qu’international·es et leur avons proposé un double temps de résidence croisée. Nous avons pensé que cette immersion offrirait un terreau fertile pour la compréhension, la réinterprétation et la création de récits liés au Léman.

avec Jean-Baptiste Molina, Federica Tamarozzi, Christian Baumann, Dalia Mauvis, Mathilde Tinturier, Jonathan Frigeri, Emmanuelle Nizou, Antoine Schaad, Maryne Lanaro, Henry Deletra, Benoit Grison, Diederik Peeters, Paul Courlet, Luca Schöpfer, Stéphanie Pfister, Eva Zornio, Vanessa Montero.

Une production de l’Institut International de Recherche sur la Radio et la Magie.

Curation : Jonathan Frigeri / Carine Demange.

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)
* Radioart106 (Haifa, PS48)

More information at http://radia.fm