Tjebbe van Tijen on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:31:25 +0200 (CEST)
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[Nettime-nl] vrijdag/friday 12 Augustus 2005 Den Bosch Radio invasie & Radio Ballet 95.2 FM
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- Subject: [Nettime-nl] vrijdag/friday 12 Augustus 2005 Den Bosch Radio invasie & Radio Ballet 95.2 FM
- From: Tjebbe van Tijen <t.tijen@chello.nl>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:31:21 +0200
Invasion of the Radio Listeners
Normality
The inner city of den Bosch is a fortress to defend normality. It’s
city walls are made to keep out everything, that might stir up the
atmosphere of a nice late medieval city: noise, traffic and modern
architecture. Succesfully: even the poorer inhabitants of the quarters
around the inner city are not visiting it very often. Why do the
inhabitants of Den Bosch love their city wall so much? Is it, that they
are still haunted by the big trauma of their history, the invasion of
the Other, the protestant troups, in 1629 - the end of the ancient
great time of the city?
Commodification
Today the walls defend the city against every use, which is not focused
on shopping and consuming. The exchange of commodities and its
dispersed repetition of always the same rituals and gestures has become
the only purpose of the inner city area: walking, stopping, exchanging
goods. When it is over, life vanishes immediately. Any kind of
difference or even deviancy is banned from this island of normality –
like in every european inner city. Usually this does not even need
force. Usually normality is in the majority and the difference is an
“abnormal” singular case, that can easily be detected, isolated and
excluded.
Radio Invasion
But what is happening, if the abnormal behavior is spreading out? What
happens, when an invisible association of people invades in the inner
city and behave different? What, if it infiltrates the dispersed
repetition of normal gestures with slightly deviant ones – not only
here, but here and there and everywhere? The artist group LIGNA invites
you to find answers to these questions out in the streets – simply by
using your radio!
No fortress wall can stop radio waves from dispersing everywhere. Radio
listeners look like everybody else - but they are different: with their
antenna they are connected to the invisible publicity of the ether.
They are part of a constellation of listeners, which does not appear,
until it shows effects: certain gestures, that are not normal, a
behavior, that is slightly different from the rest – and which is
spread by radio all over the city.
On Friday, August 12th LIGNA invites everybody to explore the strange
space, that the radio waves open in the heart of Den Bosch. Participate
in the LIGNA Radio Ballett! On the frequency of Radio Boschtion, 95,2
(??) Mhz you can hear a radio broadcast, that suggests gestures and
excercises, that question the rules of the public space of the city.
Don´t miss the uncanny radio invasion!
Become an alien in an alienated world!
Dissémination partout!
Start of the broadcast 17:00.
Gather at the entrance of Theater a/d Parade at 16:45. Pick up a radio
and tune in!
Questions or comments? Write to: radioballett@gmx.net
Tjebbe van Tijen
Imaginary Museum Projects
dramatizing historical information
http://imaginarymuseum.org
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