Sasha Grbich/Heidi Angove – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:10:34 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Sasha Grbich/Heidi Angove – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 VERY LOCAL RADIO (IN FOUR MOVEMENTS) http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/passages_mobile/very-local-radio-in-four-movements/ Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:55:25 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=passages_mobile&p=588 Very Local Radio (in four movements) is an Internet radio broadcast and live performance. This project explores ephemeral communities brought together through radio broadcasts and employs sound to navigate cities.

Via journeying, listening and broadcasting, Very Local Radio foregrounds unpredictable performances with places encountered. The project looks like a portable Internet radio transmitter assembled in a shopping trolley pushed by the artists. Audiences access the work as an Internet radio station and tune into the unpredictable sound of movements through places.

During the Performing Mobilities program, four passages of movement were undertaken amongst the spaces between the RMIT Gallery and Margaret Lawrence Gallery, taking place at midday and midnight, sunrise and sunset. Whilst moving, interesting urban sound ecologies were actively sought out, whilst the trolley broadcaster was used as a tool to explore, meet, and sometimes hand over the microphone to the community. Shared as a live sound broadcast, and generated by navigating on foot, the station was live only during the movements, and each broadcast lasted 1-2 hours.

> listen here

 

]]> Very Local Radio (in four movements) is an Internet radio broadcast and live performance. This project explores ephemeral communities brought together through radio broadcasts and employs sound to navigate cities.

Via journeying, listening and broadcasting, Very Local Radio foregrounds unpredictable performances with places encountered. The project looks like a portable Internet radio transmitter assembled in a shopping trolley pushed by the artists. Audiences access the work as an Internet radio station and tune into the unpredictable sound of movements through places.

During the Performing Mobilities program, four passages of movement were undertaken amongst the spaces between the RMIT Gallery and Margaret Lawrence Gallery, taking place at midday and midnight, sunrise and sunset. Whilst moving, interesting urban sound ecologies were actively sought out, whilst the trolley broadcaster was used as a tool to explore, meet, and sometimes hand over the microphone to the community. Shared as a live sound broadcast, and generated by navigating on foot, the station was live only during the movements, and each broadcast lasted 1-2 hours.

> listen here

 

]]> Very Local Radio: amplifying ephemeral sound communities http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/assembly_symposium/very-local-radio-amplifying-ephemeral-sound-communities/ Fri, 02 Oct 2015 03:58:20 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=procession_symposium&p=585 This paper discusses a series of journeys through the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide undertaken as part of the art project Very Local Radio (Grbich/Angove, 2015). The work in question comprises a live Internet radio broadcaster, mounted on a hand-pushed trolley. Very Local Radio is performed in real-time as a mobile event moving through shifting sites of sociality (Latour, 2005), taking in artists, things, publics, places, and online radio listeners. I suggest that navigating the city in this manner is a performance of ‘excess’ where art making exceeds the capitalist logics of city spaces – not by engaging illegal actions, but by moving outside of expectations of usefulness and moving with sensuous attentiveness (Bennett, 2010). Here listening is approached as a mode of activism in shifting locales, where very local radio is used to amplify the sound of ephemeral social networks.

]]> This paper discusses a series of journeys through the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide undertaken as part of the art project Very Local Radio (Grbich/Angove, 2015). The work in question comprises a live Internet radio broadcaster, mounted on a hand-pushed trolley. Very Local Radio is performed in real-time as a mobile event moving through shifting sites of sociality (Latour, 2005), taking in artists, things, publics, places, and online radio listeners. I suggest that navigating the city in this manner is a performance of ‘excess’ where art making exceeds the capitalist logics of city spaces – not by engaging illegal actions, but by moving outside of expectations of usefulness and moving with sensuous attentiveness (Bennett, 2010). Here listening is approached as a mode of activism in shifting locales, where very local radio is used to amplify the sound of ephemeral social networks.

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