Merging the intimate story-telling aspect of the voice on the radio with the performative quality of bodies sharing this same experience in space Sending a Signal out in the Ether: Live on Radio Athènes sets out on a meandering journey between art, music, dreams, desires, politics and life.
Artist and occasional radio-host Kerstin Cmelka will perform a live DJ set and radio broadcast, exploring female emotional desires and their attempts of expression in pop music.
Cmelka’s practice spans from her early experimental films through photographic reworkings of film stills, ad images, and production shots to her performances—known as “microdramas”—which act as reflexive commentaries on the poles of art and life by blurring the line dividing staging from reality. Her recent work is titled The Animals (2016) — an 81 min art feature film on the insular experience and work of the performer.
Radio Athènes, institute for the advancement of contemporary visual culture, is a book project, a showroom, an exhibition space and a curatorial practice. Flexible, independent, nomadic, interdisciplinary, Radio Athènes works together with local and international artists and institutions to present exhibitions, lectures, screenings and readings in the fields of contemporary art, literature, philosophy, dance and the applied arts.
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Kerstin Cmelka on Radio Athènes: If loving is wrong, I don’t wanna be right…
