TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
The People’s Radio
Sadie Woods at Wave Farm. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (Sep 09, 2021)
Sadie Woods in the Wave Farm residency studio. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (Sep 09, 2021)
Sadie Woods Portrait at the Wave Farm Study Center. Photographed by Alon Koppel Photography. (Sep 09, 2021)
The People’s Radio explores radio as a technology developed and pioneered by the U.S. military industrial complex as political warfare and public radio as a conduit for Black expressive culture and radical imagination. This broadcast is created from a variety of sources, including cultural media, ephemeral and symbolic sounds, political speeches like "Power Anywhere Where There’s People" by Fred Hampton, excerpts from Motown’s sister label Black Forum releases like "Black Spirits: Festival of New Black Poets in America," and oral histories propelled through Black music. The People’s Radio emphasizes resistance during times of social unrest in aims to recuperate and make legible repressed histories, reminding us of the political dimensions under the surface of Black life.