Hardi Kurda and his radio project “Listening’s Urgency” have been featured in the “Hörspielmagazin” on Deutschlandfunk.

The Kurdish composer and musician Hardi Kurda discovers the radio as an instrument that challenges our listening and questions the social order. Oscillating freely between the frequencies, he poses the question of illegality and its consequences for people and society.

→ Hardi Kurda: Die Freiheit der Frequenzen / Hörspielmagazin, 28.07.2020

Photo: Gailan A. Ismail

Sara Hamdy from Cairo is the fourth scholar of the Radio Art Residency. Hamdy graduated in fine in arts at the Helwan University in Cairo. Her poetic artistic practice includes visuals and sound as well as text and performance. What leads her works is the hidden and concealed – this what we cannot see nor hear, but only sense:

Obviously I’m fascinated by what we call ›madness‹. In Arabic ›mad‹ means the hidden, in the sense of concealement. There is something of whose existence we know but we don’t see it, like the unspoken history of memory, like the gardens behind the walls or the woods with their hidden seeds in the earth.

Sara Hamdy, Performance, The Complex Songs, 2016.

For the opening of her residency in Halle (Saale), the artist performs her work The Complex Songs, on the 21st of September as part of the Radio CORAX anniversay celebrations.

Sara Hamdy about her art work and ideas for the Radio Art Residency (40 min.)

Picture: Sara Hamdy

André Damião, 2018

André Damião is the next artist in residence at Radio CORAX. The artist works between the fields of music and electronic arts and experiments with self-built mobile devices as means for itinerant sound art production. In São Paulo André was developing a Noise Crowd (Bloco Ruído) as a Carneval group, which crosses the city centre on Ash Wednesdays. During his residence at Radio CORAX he wants to extend this practice of mobile sound art to the radio.

André Damião talks about the idea behind the Bloco Ruído, his artwork and the upcoming Radio Art Residency:

featuring the pieces “Feedtheradioback” (30th Bienal de São Paulo, 2012) and “Narva 2” (2015)

Photo: André Damião

OPENING SPEECH
Tina Klatte & Ralf Wendt

OPENING PERFORMANCE
Sol Rezza

Photo: Marcus-Andreas Mohr

With: Judith Baidal-Espí, Tina Klatte, Sol Rezza, Hans-Joachim Triebsch, Ralf Wendt

Photo: Sol Rezza

Before Sol is arriving in Halle in about two weeks, she has sent her favorite Argentinian tango ahead. We have talked with her about her art work and radio art in the community radio.

Photo: flickr / Ricardo Sandoval