[re.02] June 7-28 2024, Kuma International / Gallery Manifesto, Sarajevo, BiH.
OPEN CALL
Radio Elsewheres (RE) invites artists, musicians, journalists, writers, poets, storytellers, and other agents and witnesses interested in sharing their projects and experiences around conflict, movement, displacement, borders, and migration on air through word and sound. Audio material can include sound art, radio documentaries, interviews, radio essays, DJ sets, music, ambient recordings, sonic experiments, and other ideas, which can be broadcast live or recorded in advance.
After the successful first edition of Radio Elsewheres [re.01], which transmitted from the Center KRAK in Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from June 2 to 24, 2023, involving over a hundred contributors, the 2nd iteration of RE, [re.02], will again operate in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this time in conjunction with the Unfolding Elsewheres exhibition by Velibor Božović that will be held at Manifesto Gallery for Contemporary Arts in Sarajevo, from June 7-28, 2024. Conceptualized and curated by Velibor Božović with artist/musician Steve Bates, art historian Claudia Zini, and curator Adna Muslija, [re.02] will be transmitting from the studio at Kuma International Centre for Visual Arts from Post-Conflict Societies for the same duration as the exhibition and will also be broadcast online.
As an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio art project, RE interest is in displacement, voluntarily or forced, of human and non-human bodies, languages, ideas, recipes, music tuning systems, stories, botany, etc. Furthermore, instances of extinction, birth, decay, re-emergence, and resuscitation are of interest. RE is event-based and comes together for intense periods of transmission of art, ideas and research and then recuperates to develop its online archive and to network upcoming actions. As a fluid assembly of human and non-human voices across language, RE seeks to expand the meaning and possibilities of listening — to and from ‘elsewheres', where the creative misuse of the word acknowledges the potential and challenges of acquiring additional language(s) and identities.
RE investigates borders and the transgression of these structures. Who moves? Who has moved? Who decides who moves? And what does it mean to come to rest, temporarily or permanently? RE is a sound space where sound/radio artworks and social engagement efforts affect and enhance one another, a sound space within which artists, storytellers, and listeners engage and address these questions through conversation and various aural interventions.
While the radio will welcome participants from around the world, we particularly encourage collaboration with Sarajevo and BiH residents and those passing through.
In addition to having been on the periphery of Europe for centuries, inhabiting and transgressing borders between empires and interests, BiH has recently become a major transit point for migrants and asylum seekers, from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and other places, trying to reach the European Union. As such BiH is a nodal point for arrivals and departures and a pertinent site for discussions on the political and socio-economic circumstances that force displacement.
To submit a proposal, please send us a brief description of what you would like to do to contact@radioelsewheres.net by May 1, 2024.
If you prefer to have more structure with your proposal, please follow the guidelines below (it would help us too).
In a single PDF document no larger than 5 MB provide the following:
- A brief description of your project (500 words max.)
- Information about yourself and your work (500 words max.)
- Up to 6 images or sketches (optional)
- Online links of relevance (website, audio, video materials)
Thank you.
You can listen to [re.01] original content on our Soundcloud stream archive page.
[re.01] Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK, June ‘23, Bihać