lumbung radio x SAVVYZΛΛR x MISS READ  

Across our neighbouring spaces, we cordially invite you to the pre-fair programme of MISS READ between lumbung radio and SAVVYZΛΛR. One day in the MISS READ space, one day in the SAVVY house, you are welcome to join us for workshops, conversations, presentations & listenings around radio and care, art book fairs and sounds, distribution, technology, collectivity and more. 

Come, come: 

TUESDAY  08.10.2024
AT SAVVY Contemporary INVITING MISS READ

14:00–16:00
Knowing Radio Nopal from Inside
Presentation
With  Icnelly

This event will introduce Radio Nopal (MX), presenting a video with the creators of Mensajito (the open source technology with which Radio Nopal broadcasts its activities) and interviews with communities using Mensajito. It will be followed by an open discussion.

RADIO NOPAL   is an independent and collective radio station, located in Mexico City. It transmits using a free technology device, called mensajito.mx, which allows us to broadcast from the internet without using any computer. Radio Nopal offers international artistic residencies, as well as workshops that range from teaching trades to creating and using technological tools. Radio Nopal is a meeting place that generates links and collaborations. It encourages the creation of communities through free exchange of a multiplicity of content. As a community, Radio Nopal is a medium committed to informing, accompanying and proposing topics of interest. Its goal is to create a critical cultural map and to be recognised as a meeting point for the creative community in Mexico City and surroundings.

17:00–19:00
The practice of radical distribution
conversation
African Art Book Fair in with Station of Commons and MISS READ
With Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Pascale Obolo, Michalis Pichler, Grégoire Rousseau

This panel discussion proposes a discussion on the practice of an art book fair with a focus on the latest edition of the African Art Book Fair (AABF). For this year's edition in Dakar, AABF invited lumbung radio and Station of Commons to produce a series of interviews with local actors to better understand the new forms of critical discourse vivid on the African continent. MISS READ, the Berlin art book fair, participated in the fair in Dakar and cooperates regularly with Station of Commons. The discussion opens on the practice of exploration into decolonizing art book fairs shared by the three collectives.

20:00–22:00
DJ–SET 
With 200 SUAVES (Radio Nopal)

​​​With an eclectic style that mixes commercial and underground music from a global background, in this DJ-Set and songs you can find sounds and elements of perreo, merengue, latin club, pop, regional mexican music (corridos tumbados) with touches of pop, cumbia, and electronic music as techno, house and dance music. As part of the LGBT+ community, they understand that the dance floor is a place where you unleash the body, submit it to the rhythm and let it be carried away by the emotions that happen there.
 

WEDNESDAY  09.10.2024
AT MISS READ SPACE INVITING SAVVY CONTEMPORARY

14:00–16:00
soundscape
Workshop
With  Eldar Tagi and Lena Pozdnyakova (There There)

Long before music became a performative art, it was participatory. Across human cultures – and even among other lifeforms – the act of collective sound-making has remained one of the most profound and holistic ways to connect and interact. In this spirit, we open our soundspace as a temporary, immersive experience that invites you to revisit this shared form of expression. Guided by a group of core improvisers, anyone in the space is welcome to join in shaping the sonic dynamics. Whether using objects you bring, items found within the gallery, or the instruments of your own body, every sound contributes to the evolving soundscape.

16:30–17:30
on care-full organizing
DISCUSSION
With Simona Dvorak and Luise Willer

This collective moment that we will set up in different places and temporalities is an attempt to create space for free speech and listening. Based on shared experiences, methods of gathering and organizing, this effort rests on the notions of care, vulnerabilities, interdependence and alliance. Therefore we ask: What are our practical and theoretical foundations? What can we learn from existing initiatives and organizations? What is the origin of an action – a reaction – in opposition to epistemic violence. What form might it take?

In this hour-long open gathering we will share snippets of previous conversations with artists, academics or anyone else we meet, to open up the space to multiple voices, share ideas or quotes and gather thoughts. We want to learn together and create an active, ongoing protocol for what's needed to be carefully organized. The conversation is a preparatory event for a series of assemblies to be held between Berlin and Paris over the coming year, serving as an active, collaborative protocol for moving forward. We want to reverse the logic of theoretical hegemony and use theory as a tool for possible action.

18:00–20:00                      
Radio Communities or Radio as Practice of Commoning
CONVERSATION
SAVVYZΛΛR (Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Manuela Garcia Aldana), Radio Nopal (200 Suaves), lumbung radio (Grégoire Rousseau, Juan Fortun) & Cashmere radio (DJ Shlucht)

This panel talk reflects on radio as a radical collective practice and proposes to approach radio as commons. The radio practices gathered here address the social relations happening within the collective to organize a set of limited resources: time, energy, space, and economy. The discussion explores and elaborates on radio labor as a social process that is a form of “commoning” practice beyond capitalist mode of production.

20:30–22:00                      
DJ-set
With DJ ShluchT / Cashmere radio

Hailing from Berlin, DJ SchluchT works at DIY Church as one of their unpaid interns for more than 10 years. He made himself a name with abstract social behavior online and in real life as well as naive ghost coding and tape looping. Basically it always sounds the same or like one of his critics once said: “classic intuitive wrongfootedness”.