30 May, 18:00–20:00 / Casco HQ
Live on Stranded FM’s stream 2 and relayed to Rijksakademie Open Studios via lumbung radio. Head here to listen – click the number in the playing screen to switch channels when on air. RSVP via luke@casco.art
Join us at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons for a sonic solidarity session, during which we aim to further collective efforts to dismantle the narratives sustaining the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Throughout these horrific months of onslaught on Gaza by Israeli military violence, the Learning Palestine group has been collecting a growing database of artistic and academic means of solidarity with Palestine. In light of our library activations and our interest to embed social-sonic practices through radio, this session combines the two and engages with collective reading and soundscaping, live on air.
During the radio session, a curated subset of texts released as pamphlets by Learning Palestine will serve as the primary source material for the collaborative soundscape. We will focus on Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue by Nadia Elia. Additionally, the session will be guided by a sonic backbone choreographed by Luke Cohlen from the team at Casco Art Institute, as well as by the session’s participants. Intermittent with the readings and sounds played, participants are also encouraged to contribute to the soundscape, whether through written notes, songs, or field recordings. If you wish to contribute sonically, alongside your anonymous voice in the readings’ choir, please provide links or bring files beforehand or arrive earlier.
Radio, for Palestine will be broadcast live on the second channel of Utrecht’s community radio station Stranded FM. The show will also be relayed to Rijksakademie Open Studios via lumbung Radio, where our cooperative team member Reza Afisina is a guest resident.
The resulting recording will be a collective and experimental sound collage. As radio offers a fruitful and radical means to explore transmissive and interconnected ways of sharing information—community-oriented and ‘undercommons’-like, transcending institutional rigidity—the session’s recording will be considered material for resharing, resampling, and retransmitting through resonant radio stations and programs in our networks, such as 24Hrs/Palestine and the ongoing vital work of Radio Alhara.
We provide a welcoming and creative space for participants, with the option for crediting afterward based on consent. If you have any questions regarding the program or about a contribution, please contact luke@casco.art.
