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WUNP –The United Nations Plaza Radio Network – Mexico City DF
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere will continue WUNP as a live internet broadcast stream from Casa Refugio, Mexico City. Taking place Wednesdays during the month of March 2008, this series of programming will focus on urban spatial practices that incorporate sound, music, and broadcast. Schedule below; also check the UNP website for more information.
March 26th, 5pm (Mexico City)
Domino Theory
WUNP will conduct the first ever, live radio broadcast of a domino match between between Eduardo Abaroa, Helena Chavez, Angel Nevarez, and Valerie Tevere.
Domino Theory was a mid-20th Century foreign policy term used during the Cold War by various United States administrations to justify global US interventionary politics. Domino Theory and the Domino Effect suggest that some change, however small, will effect another similar change nearby, and so on, and so, like a row of falling dominos…
For today’s broadcast match this group will simultaneously talk theory and
play dominos, a popular game seen and heard throughout Mexico City.
March 12th, 11am (Mexico City)
On-air discussion with Taniel Morales
Today’s broadcast focuses on sound transmission in urban space. Taniel Morales is an artist, musician, and excellent cook based in Mexico City. He began his studies in mathmatics, yet when everything began to integrate into complex variables without explanations he changed his course to visual arts and radio. His work ranges from short historic sound capsules and radio montages, to broadcast interventions on public buses in Mexico City. http://tecnodiversidad.com/
Archived Program (click here)
March 5th, 5pm (Mexico City)
Circuit Maps and Conceptual Networks
Tevere and Nevarez will present historical and contemporary models related to the field of radio – as an artistic form, a communicatory tool, a facilitating device, and political and cultural force. Of particular focus, today’s broadcast will look at radio and telephony in the work of Max Neuhaus, Radio Alice, and Tetsuo Kogawa.
Archived Program (click here)
WUNP is a radio station produced by Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez for unitednationsplaza. WUNP is a portal for broadcasting audio works, conversations, and conceptual radio projects. Over the course of the summer and fall of 2007 WUNP will be on air across Berlin (95.2 FM) and beyond through internet stream on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays beginning at 6 PM CEST (Berlin) through November.
WUNP station identification by Karl Holmqvist
Webstream space provided by kein.tv
Past Programs:
November 17, 2007
The End
13:00 - 18:00 Everything Must Go! : liquidation sale of all objects belonging to the unitednationsplaza.
furniture, printed matter, tools, kitchenware, electronic equipment, office supplies, plants, clothing and much much more.
low low prices!
organized by Martha Rosler and Anton Vidokle
14:30 - 16:30 A program of talks, screenings and performances: Julieta Aranda : The end of the future; Regine Basha: The last haflah ; Francois Bucher: Television: an address (the end of cinema) ; Daniel Bozhkov: SoMoMA ; Hadley + Maxwell: Find us at the kitchen door; Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez: The end of radio (and WUNP); Florian Zeyfang and guests .
All programs will be broadcast on WUNP. The transmission will end at 17:00 hrs.
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November 13, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
58:22 & Some Words - Saâdane Afif
hosted by Louis Scoufaras
curated by Valerie Tevere & Angel Nevarez
58:22 & Some Words began with an invitation. We asked Saâdane Afif to join us for a program on WUNP, a project as radio station we produce for unitednationsplaza in Berlin. Through numerous conversations with Afif, rather than produce a discussion of his work over the airwaves, we would curate a compilation of various songs produced for and in response to his visual works and installations. In turn, adding another layer of interpretation to the work through the transmission of an ordered series of tracks interspersed with measured commentary and introductions of a radio announcer (written by Afif) whose voice flares with the intonation and bravado typical to DJs heard on popular radio stations.
Many of the chosen tracks in title and content reference the ethereal, and ghostly traces so often associated to the incorporeality of radio.
As radio arranges and transforms sound and voice systematically for particular instances of reception, 58:22 & Some Words functions as an exhibition, a radio program, and event space, transposing the physical spaces of the WUNP studio and Mehdi Chouakri Gallery with the airspace in between.
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November 8, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
Public Address
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with special guest: Beate Engl
Beate Engel is an artist living and working in Munich Germany. She has worked collaboratively on artistic and curatorial projects (Galerie Goldankauf 1999-2001, KunstPraxis 2003-2005) focusing on place specific Installation and Institute-critical works. Research includes understanding systems of Settlement/setting and mapping/allocation, which should be questioned and artistically adapted. Selected exhibitions include “Betaversion 2.0”, Halle 14 / Stiftung Federkiel Leipzig (2004); “Und die weiße Zelle schwebt weiter...”, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2005); „ YBA“, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin (2006); seit 2005/06. She teaches at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Further information can be found at: www.beateengl.de
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November 6, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guests: Katya Sander and Ashley Hunt
Katya Sander and Ashley Hunt are part of a collaborative together with David Thorne, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer that recently produced the video installation "9 Scripts from a Nation at War", shown at documenta 12. For tonight's broadcast they will discuss and air sound clips from the installation.
Katya Sander lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. In her work, she questions issues of space, narration, desire and order through film, text, architecture, constructions and interventions. Together with Simon Shiekh she is a series editor of OE¬Critical Readers.
Ashley Hunt is an artist and activist who works to engage the ideas of social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. Recent works include the ongoing “Corrections Documentary Project” correctionsproject.com and “A World Map: in which we see...” aworldmap.com
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November 3, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
radia roundtable
hosted by re-boot and neuroTransmitter
with special guests: Knut Aufermann, Shu Lea Cheang, Toni Dimitrov, Tetsuo Kogawa, Serhat Koksal, Verena Kuni, Etienne Noiseau, Rocket Scientists, Sanyi, Sarah Washington
for more information: http://backyardradio.de/blog/
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November 1, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
The FM Ferry Experiment
excerpts, sound archive, and discussion of the September broadcasts from the Staten Island Ferry
hosted by neuroTransmitter
For eight days in September of 2007, neuroTransmitter presented The FM Ferry Experiment, a project which transformed the Staten Island Ferry into a floating radio station, integrating broadcast and performance into one of New York’s most traveled public spaces, expanding its architecture out into the airwaves, engaging publics on the ferry and on-the-air. Live programs consisted of performances, lectures, and conversations, which took place on the Staten Island Ferry, and were broadcast along with music, sound, commentary, and ambient noise via WSIA 88.9 FM and fmferryexperiment.net.
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October 30, 2007 // 6pm CEST (Berlin)
Inverse Observatories: from mental astronomy to electro-acoustics
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest: Christoph Keller
In his installations frequently resembling experimental configurations, Christoph Keller uses the discursive possibilities of art to investigate the themes of science and its utopias. The Cloudbuster-Project (2003) reenacted Wilhelm Reich’s experiments for influencing the atmosphere with orgon energy. In many of his works like Archives as Objects as Monuments (2000),or Hypnosis Film Project (2007) he aplies archeological methods on scientific or feature-film stocks to develop his installations. His latest exhibition Observatoires (2007) at Esther Schipper in Berlin displayed three projects turning around the viewpoint of astronomical research in different ways, thus making observatories visible as social monuments and their target, outer space as a mental place.
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October 22 - 26, 2007 // 7PM CEST (Berlin)
Hosted by unitednationsplaza
who's there? --an interrogation in the dark
A seminar by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Ines Schaber and Anselm Franke
The unitednationsplaza's October seminar seeks to negotiate the possibilities of the political and the artistic in a state of a general mental and social blackout. The week will be guided by a text by Thomas Keenan and will involve guest presenters from different cultural fields.
Keenans' text describes the place where the aporias of so much of contemporary politics occur as a darkened frontier -- a night situation of non-knowledge and non-rule where the right to question and to pass is negotiable. Name, password, knowledge and power. In this darkness the frontier itself shifts, moves like a ghost, limitless and unnatural; political responsibility becomes an experience of a certain encounter, a crossing at that darkened border.
Kennan insists that we have to fight all the new obscurantisms that appear in this darkness and fight for the extension and radicalization of all enlightments. In that sense the seminar seeks to sound out possible paths for this radicalization by considering different traditions of knowledge, artistic means, discussion and failure.
guest contributors:
Avery Gordon
Nanna Heidenreich
Philip Scheffner
Ashley Hunt
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October 20, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
John Cage - Roaratorio
Tonight’s broadcast features John Cage’s composition Roaratorio and excerpts from an August 1979 conversation between John Cage and Klaus Schöning. Roaratorio , Cage's 1979 composition, involves several elements all working together at once to create a soundscape of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake .
In conversation with Klaus Schöning, Cage spoke about Roaratorio as a work designed to be "free of melody and free of harmony and free of counterpoint: free of musical theory. If an oratorio is like a church-opera, in which the people don't act, they simply stand there and sing ... a 'roaratorio' is ... out in the world. It's not in the church."
Roaratorio contains three simultaneous elements:
(1) Cage reading lines from the text, selected so as to form the mesostic "JAMESJOYCE" over and over again.
(2) A barrage of sound effects, all inspired from the text, many recorded in Ireland and other geographical locations mentioned in the novel.
(3) Irish traditional music, played at various times at various intensities: jigs, reels, airs and songs, forming an ambient presence like music drifting from a Dublin pub into a busy street. (excerpted from themodernworld.com)
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October 18, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest: Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien, born in 1971 in France, lives and works in Berlin. Flavien has twice resided in Rio de Janeiro, where he researched and developed two projects and founded a publishing house. With his projects he puts forth mental and physical architecture that articulates the relationship between artificial and natural light as well as between day and night in architecture, the different luminous and sonorous planes produced by a building, the interiority and exteriority of an architectural envelope, and the different perceptions of time opened up by architectural spaces. Along with larger architectural projects, Flavien has produced sculptures, performances, exhibitions, and radio programs.
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October 16, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Invisibility: People / Cities / Forces
hosted by neuroTransmitter with artist Judi Werthein, and writers Jorge Luis Borges on the metaphor, and Suketu Mehta reading and telling invisible stories.
Judi Werthein is an artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural
Borges in Buenos Aires; the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Her work has also been seen at INSITE_05, Bienal de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, 2006; de Appel, Amsterdam, 2006; and Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba, 2000 among other sites. Werthein's work will be shown this year at Art in General, NY; Americas Society, NY; Tate Modern, London; Centrum Beldende Kunst, Rotterdam and she has been invited to participate in the upcoming Manifesta 7.
Suketu Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is the author of 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,' which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.
Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer, poet, critic, and translator is best known for his short stories and fictional essays. In his first story “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” he explored the nature of authorship. His first collection of short stories, “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” included "El Sur," a piece that incorporated some autobiographical elements and which Borges later called "perhaps my best story." He has contributed to the avant-garde review “Martín Fierro” among others; and co-founded the journals “Prisma” (a broadsheet distributed largely by pasting copies to walls in Buenos Aires), and “Proa”.
(this program was first aired on August 11, 2007)
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October 13, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
THE MONO SHOW featuring schleuser.net radio
hosted by Ralf Homann in discussion with the WUNP hosts
The Mono Show is a live performance using the setting of the radio talk show format to activate listening audiences. The Mono-Show is always immediately broadcast via FM (and in Mono) in the area where the meeting is held. For today’s broadcast Ralf Homann will discuss and air broadcasts from the schleuser.net archive.
Ralf Homann (Munich/Berlin) works mostly in and on collaborative contexts and deals with concepts of space and media strategies. He set up the Experimental Radio at Bauhaus-University in Weimar/Germany, was co-initiator of “no one is illegal” Hybrid Workspace, documenta X, and co-founder of the art group schleuser.net. Recent works were shown at ’Radio Kinesonus’ Tokyo/Japan, in "Open Spaces", Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen/Germany and in ’Colonialism without Colonies’, Shedhalle, Zurich/Switzerland. Ralf Homann studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich/Germany, and was Artist in Residence at Villa Romana in Florence, Forum Stadtpark in Graz/Austria and IASPIS in Stockholm/Sweden.
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October 09, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest: Carsten Nicolai
Carsten Nicolai, born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. As a visual artist Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the sensual perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequenzies perceivable for both eyes and ears. His installations have a minimalistic aestehtic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing.
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September 08, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest: Gregory Green
broadcasting from WCBS Radio Caroline, The Voice of The New Free State of
Caroline
Gregory Green's work addresses the commerce of information and alternatives for restructuring political power, juxtaposing imposed systems with transformative strategies adopted by individuals and communities. His pirate radio station and interactive mobile television broadcast unit intervene in state- and commercial-controlled communication systems providing individuals the possibility to make their own transmissions.
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September 04, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
This evening's broadcast, recorded at The Delegate's Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters, is a conversation with a former UN staff member who tours us through the diplomatic and psychosocial spaces of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
(this program was first aired on July 26, 2007)
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September 01, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Ruth Rosenfeld
Tonight we are in conversation with Ruth Rosenfeld discussing the interstices of opera, classical music, eroticism, love, and contemporary art.
Ruth Rosenfeld is a Soprano who started her musical training with piano and recorder lessons at the age of 5. Since then she has had a prolific career in opera and classical music. Recent performances include the title female role of Konja in Leo Fall's operetta (2005); Finalist of the 6th International Competition Franz Schubert and the Music of Modern Times, Graz, Austria (2006); In 2007 she sang at the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Der Sonne entgegen at the Musik Theater am Revier in Gelsenkirchen. Rosenfeld sings regularly as a guest at the Braunschweig State Opera and at the "Volksbuehne" in Berlin, and in July was featured in Anri Sala's 4 Butterflies as part of Manchester International Festival at the Opera House, Manchester.
(this program was first aired on July 19, 2007)
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August 28, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
The Communist Manifesto - books-on-tape - part 3 & 4
The Communist Manifesto, published 1848
by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
English translation by Samuel Moore in cooperation with Friedrich Engels, 1888.
part 3 & 4 read by Chris Gaffny and produced by the Victorian Labor College
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August 25, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
The Communist Manifesto - books-on-tape - part 1 & 2
neuroTransmitter introduces from Greene County, NY
The Communist Manifesto, published 1848
by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
English translation by Samuel Moore in cooperation with Friedrich Engels, 1888.
part 1 & 2 audio narration by Michael Scott
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August 21, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser - City as Resource
The work of Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser focuses on the city as a field of artistic experimentation; on the themes of public space, sustainability and self-organisation. Köbberling and Kaltwasser mount installations, exhibitions and interventions in urban space by which they question city life critically under the sign of privatisation and economic pressure, pointing out practical examples of temporary uses and informal methods, as well as the possibilities for enlivening and re-appropriating the terrain.
(this program was first aired on July 14, 2007)
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August 18, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Territories
Together with Brandon LaBelle, we will be experimenting with the limits of the WUNP broadcast and discussing contemporary conceptual radio practices relating to location and urban realms. The act of transmission brings forward the tensions and promises embedded within locational and situational exchanges and imaginations, placing the ethereal expanse firmly on the ground. Following such perspectives, this broadcast will speak of and trace the radiophonic interactions between, above, and below the sonic and the social, looping in and out from the studio to the city, starting with the recent publication, Radio Territories, as a vehicle for enacting and examining radio's medial reach.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. He edited the compilation Radio Territories and is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. errantbodies.org
(this program was first aired on July 10, 2007)
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August 14, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Simon Sheikh - From Sun to Creation. A short history of independent music in the latter half of the 20th century.
Simon Sheikh will play records and talk about their histories and contingencies, all examples of independently produced and distributed records from the regional labels of the 1950s and 60s through private pressings in the 1970s, the DIY movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the independent label system from the 1980s and 90s.
Simon Sheikh is a critic and curator, living in Copenhagen and Berlin. He teaches art theory at the Malmö Art Academy, where he runs the Critical Studies Program. Sheikh has been collecting records for about the half the time period covered in this program of discursive dj'ing.
(this program was first aired on July 7th, 2007)
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August 11, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
Invisibility: People / Cities / Forces
hosted by neuroTransmitter with artist Judi Werthein, and writers Jorge Luis
Borges on the metaphor, and Suketu Mehta reading and telling invisible
stories.
Judi Werthein is an artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She has had solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires; the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Her work has also been seen at INSITE_05, Bienal de Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, 2006; de Appel, Amsterdam, 2006; and Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba, 2000 among other sites. Werthein's work will be shown this year at Art in General, NY; Americas Society, NY; Tate Modern, London; Centrum Beldende Kunst, Rotterdam and she has been invited to participate in the upcoming Manifesta 7.
Suketu Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is the author of 'Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,' which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harpers Magazine, Time, and Condé Nast Traveler, and has been featured on NPR's 'Fresh Air'.
Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine writer, poet, critic, and translator is best known for his short stories and fictional essays. In his first story “Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote” he explored the nature of authorship. His first collection of short stories, “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan” included "El Sur," a piece that incorporated some autobiographical elements and which Borges later called "perhaps my best story." He has contributed to the avant-garde review “Martín Fierro” among others; and co-founded the journals “Prisma” (a broadsheet distributed largely by pasting copies to walls in Buenos Aires), and “Proa”.
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August 7, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the WUNP broadcast archive
Martha Rosler - G.I.s Against the War: Resistance is Possible
a series of readings from A Matter of Conscience, photographs by William Short, oral histories by Willa Seidenberg and William Short. (The book was given to Martha Rosler by William Short)
Oral histories: Charlie Clements, Clarence Fitch, Steve Fournier, Alan Klein, Howard Levy, Keith Mather, and Susan Schnall
*plus a selection of draft dodger tunes compiled by Martha Rosler
(this program was first aired on July 5th, 2007)
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August 4, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest: Mark Beasley
Tonight we’ll be in conversation with Mark Beasley who will introduce and play the audio work ADVENTURE: Showdown at the pig palace…
ADVENTURE is an experimental radio play from Mark and Stephen Beasley, which weaves together a fictional dialogue between two teenagers with measured descriptions of the architectural specifications of a typical shopping centre - from the excavation of virgin soil to the addition of fixtures and fittings. The protagonists, “girl” and “boy” struggle to orientate themselves, politically and culturally, or direct their desires, bouncing between resistance, through means of imagined violent revolution, and assimilation. The play is accompanied by a soundtrack, composed and performed by Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn, Black Galaxy).
Mark Beasley is an artist and curator (currently at Creative Time, NY) and Stephen Beasley is an artist and architect. They previously worked together as Flatpack001 , a collective project that drew upon artistic, architectural and curatorial practices. Now, working under their own names, they continue to explore this territory. Recent projects include Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (Frozen Tears III, publication edited by John Russell), Beasley Street (Camden Arts Centre), and The Delinquent Silhouette (Metropole Gallery). http://www.cityprojects.org/
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August 2, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the seminar archive of unitednationsplaza
Liam Gillick - Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence
Day 5 - Relations of equivalence: three potential endings.
For more information on Liam Gillick's seminar, go to: http://unitednationsplaza.org/seminar_gillick.html
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July 31, 2007 // 6PM CEST (Berlin)
from the seminar archive of unitednationsplaza
Liam Gillick - Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence
Day 3 - Reoccupation, recuperation and aimless renovation.
Day 4 - Reconfiguring the recent past.
For more information on Liam Gillick's seminar, go to: http://unitednationsplaza.org/seminar_gillick.html
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July 28, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest:
Rubén Ortiz-Torres - Power Tools
Taking cue from the subtitle of Rubén Ortiz-Torres' blog, tonight's conversation is a live rant about art and culture across borders in the post colonial era.
Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964, and has been living/working in Los Angeles since 1990. He was educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism confronted by the tragedies and cultural clashes of the post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing major league baseball, he decided to study art. After enduring Mexico City's earthquake and pollution Ortiz-Torres moved to L.A. with a Fulbright grant to survive riots, fires, floods, more earthquakes, and proposition 187. During all of this, he has produced artwork in the form of paintings, photographs, objects, installations, videos, and films which, since 1982 have been featured internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is part of the permanent Faculty of the University of California in San Diego.
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July 26, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
This evening's broadcast, recorded at The Delegate's Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters, is a conversation with a former UN staff member who tours us through the diplomatic and psychosocial spaces of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
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July 24, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
from the seminar archive of unitednationsplaza
Liam Gillick - Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence
Day 1 - The day before closure of an experimental factory. - 35min. 57sec.
Day 2 - Redundancy following the lure of infinite flexibility. - 43min. 08sec.
At various points over the course of the summer, WUNP will broadcast seminars and lectures previously held at unitednationsplaza. For more information on Liam Gillick's seminar, go to: http://unitednationsplaza.org/seminar_gillick.html
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July 21, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by unitednationsplaza
Karl Holmqvist - I Want Your Texts...
Tonight's broadcast is a live marathon reading and radio broadcast with Karl Holmqvist who asks you to contribute texts which you would like to hear read by him. These texts can be political manifestos, newspaper clippings, short stories, poems, declarations of love, all types of erotic dreams or other dreams as well or favourite song lyrics. Please send your texts to: office@unitednationsplaza.org
Karl Holmqvist was born in Västerås, Sweden, and now lives and works in Berlin. Holmqvist uses texts, presented in written or spoken form, to address to the ethics and aesthetics of issues such as politics and religion. The resulting installations of his work are usually minimal and functional; boxes of published texts, computers and listening stations. Karl Holmqvist participated in exhibitions including Utopia Station , Venice Biennale; Models for tomorrow , European Kunsthalle, Cologne; If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution , Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam; e-flux video rental; The Fifteen Minutes Show , Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam; Gasthof , Staedelschule, Frankfurt; and numerous other.
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July 19, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest:
Ruth Rosenfeld
Tonight we are in conversation with Ruth Rosenfeld discussing the interstices of opera, classical music, eroticism, love, and contemporary art.
Ruth Rosenfeld is a Soprano who started her musical training with piano and recorder lessons at the age of 5. Since then she has had a prolific career in opera and classical music. Recent performances include the title female role of Konja in Leo Fall's operetta (2005); Finalist of the 6th International Competition Franz Schubert and the Music of Modern Times, Graz, Austria (2006); In 2007 she sang at the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Der Sonne entgegen at the Musik Theater am Revier in Gelsenkirchen. Rosenfeld sings regularly as a guest at the Braunschweig State Opera and at the "Volksbuehne" in Berlin, and in July was featured in Anri Sala's 4 Butterflies as part of Manchester International Festival at the Opera House, Manchester.
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July 14, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guests:
Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser - City as Resource
The work of Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser focuses on the city as a field of artistic experimentation; on the themes of public space, sustainability and self-organisation. Köbberling and Kaltwasser mount installations, exhibitions and interventions in urban space by which they question city life critically under the sign of privatisation and economic pressure, pointing out practical examples of temporary uses and informal methods, as well as the possibilities for enlivening and re-appropriating the terrain.
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July 12, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guests:
Miguel Calderón, Eduardo Sarabia, and Christina Sescosse
Critical Tequila Practices: A Conversation on Art, Music, and Spirits
Miguel Calderón is an artist based in Mexico City. His work consists of installations, paintings, sculptures, and films. He is currently working on a film script with the writer Guillermo Fadanelli. Calderón was a member of the now defunct band Intestino Gruesos .
Eduardo Sarabia is an artist from Los Angeles. He lives and works between Guadalajara and Berlin. His current project is Salon Alemán in the basement of unitednationsplaza where he serves his own brand of tequila.
Christina Sescosse is an urban planner from Zacatecas currently living in Berlin. She has recently completed a theoretical work focusing on the construction and rebuilding of public spaces in Guadalajara. Her recent project is titled Berlin city net.
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July 10, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest:
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Territories
Together with Brandon LaBelle, we will be experimenting with the limits of the WUNP broadcast and discussing contemporary conceptual radio practices relating to location and urban realms. The act of transmission brings forward the tensions and promises embedded within locational and situational exchanges and imaginations, placing the ethereal expanse firmly on the ground. Following such perspectives, this broadcast will speak of and trace the radiophonic interactions between, above, and below the sonic and the social, looping in and out from the studio to the city, starting with the recent publication, Radio Territories, as a vehicle for enacting and examining radio's medial reach.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. He edited the compilation Radio Territories and is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. errantbodies.org
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July 7, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest:
Simon Sheikh - From Sun to Creation. A short history of independent music in the latter half of the 20th century.
Simon Sheikh will play records and talk about their histories and contingencies, all examples of independently produced and distributed records from the regional labels of the 1950s and 60s through private pressings in the 1970s, the DIY movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s and the independent label system from the 1980s and 90s.
Simon Sheikh is a critic and curator, living in Copenhagen and Berlin. He teaches art theory at the Malmö Art Academy, where he runs the Critical Studies Program. Sheikh has been collecting records for about the half the time period covered in this program of discursive dj'ing.
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July 5, 2007 // 6:00pm CEST
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guest:
Martha Rosler - G.I.s Against the War: Resistance is Possible
a series of readings from A Matter of Conscience, photographs by William Short, oral histories by Willa Seidenberg and William Short. (The book was given to Martha Rosler by William Short)
Oral histories: Charlie Clements, Clarence Fitch, Steve Fournier, Alan Klein, Howard Levy, Keith Mather, and Susan Schnall
*plus a selection of draft dodger tunes compiled by Martha Rosler
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Inaugural Broadcast: June 30, 2007 // 9-11pm CEST (Berlin)
Hosted by neuroTransmitter
with Special Guests:
Fia Backström - What is Left to do? What is the Right thing to do?
Regine Basha and Julieta Aranda - Radio Baghdad
Ute Meta Bauer and Piotr Nathan - Les Enfants Terribles
Karl Holmqvist - WUNP station identifications
Naeem Mohaiemen - Green Zones & Bubble Boys
Stefan Saffer - Der Grüne Punkt
Valerie Tevere - Can I declare a no-fly zone over my house?
Tirdad Zolghadr - What's in it for me?
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**WUNP has concluded its on-air activity. A podcast edition of all programs will be available in 2008. Please stand-by for more information.