Radio is a global electronic organism, a large body of loudspeakers, microphones, transmitters and receivers, a mega instrument ready to be used. This is what radioPHØNIX is! There is information, word and sound, but there are also – in a far more substantial way – waves, frequencies, signals and noises. What happens if every aspect of this socio-technological complex called radio is considered an instrument, a means of expression, a toy we can play with instead of applying ourselves to its traditional functions? What happens if we attack this centennial old apparatus with strategies of reinterpretation and give it new meanings?

radioPHØNIX is a series by Timo Kreuser & PHØNIX16 in collaboration with 24 radio stations worldwide. In sound installations, they deal with phenomena of radiophonic practice. For the workshop they invite organisations, artists and the public to experiment on radio and sound, exchange concepts and produce material for future public listening events.

About PHØNIX16

PHØNIX16 is a paradox: a collective of individuals – researching on the phenomenon of voice as a primary instrument, but also as bearer and carrier of social, political and cultural expression and means of communication. Thriving from different sources of research, from vocal to social to political to expressive, the collective realises its expressive performances of various dimensions such as experimental film, installation and happenings. PHØNIX16 isn’t shy to take influences in its vocal expression from folklore to electronic or contemporary music to death metal. This constantly questions, confronts and expands the common way of listening.
 

About Timo Kreuser

“a piece is a time is a phenomenon is a process is a movement is a peoples is a state is a virus, but no utopia!
it is real. which doesn’t necessarily mean that it is real in any other place or time. what then is reality? how can we perceive something as being real or not? which preconditions determine our perception?” For more than a decade Timo has produced pieces, time objects, recordings, films and live acts with and without PHØNIX16 and like-minded others around those questions.
 

About Sophie Emilie Beha

Sophie Emilie Beha works in a variety of contexts, including music, text, curation, improvisation, dramaturgy and poetry. As a dramaturge with the singer collective PHØNIX16 in Berlin, she conceives projects on urban action art, border spaces and conspiracy theories. She is an author and composer of transmedia projects. She curates concerts and festivals in Cologne. She co-founded the interdisciplinary festival guterstoff – and believes in mutual trust and community as well as curating people rather than specific works or programs. She is a member of the experimental vocal ensemble Γλωσσα (Glossa), with which she won the Karl Sczuka Research Grant in 2022. For the artistic research project Outernational, she is exploring the question of how diverse contemporary music can sound. Sophie Emilie Beha also works as a multimedia music journalist for radio, the internet, magazines, artists and festivals. In 2021 she was nominated for the German Jazz Journalism Award and since 2022 her curatorial work has been supported by NICA artist development.
 

About Goh Lee Kwang

To this day, Goh Lee Kwang has spent almost 20 years producing music that defies any attempts of genre categorisation. His works cover a wide range of avant-garde, electronics, field recordings and more. Goh Lee Kwang lives in Kuala Lumpur.
 

About Elise Luong

Elise Luong (she/her) is French-Vietnamese-Australian, and the Co-founder of Undecided Productions. Raised in Melbourne, she holds a BFA in Photography & Video Arts from Belgium. Based in Hanoi since 2016, she works as an art manager, writer, event manager & communication designer.
 

About Tengal Drilon

Tengal is a composer, media artist, and cultural instigator, engaged in research-based production that bridges art, technology, and society. Since 2005, he has initiated various projects in Manila and across Southeast Asia. Notably, he founded the art organization SABAW Media Art Kitchen, a curatorial platform specializing in sound and media art. In 2008, he established the Philippines’ first international media art festival and symposium, WSK Festival of the Recently Possible. From 2017 to 2018, Tengal curated the exhibition “INTERSTICES: Manifolds of The In-between” and served as the guest director for the “Self-reflexivity: Thinking Media and Digital Articulations” exhibition at the Tokyo Media Art Festival MeCA | Media Culture in Asia, initiated by the Japan Foundation. Tengal co-created the international platform NUSASONIC, a creative collaboration between YES NO KLUB, WSK Festival of The Recently Possible, Playfreely/BlackKaji, CTM Festival, and the Goethe Institute. Nusasonic was a multi-year project that explored a wide spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, fostering dialogue not only within the region but also with Europe. Recently relocating to Berlin, Tengal served as curator-at-large at Art Laboratory Berlin and played a significant role as co-curator of the project “Hackers, Makers, Thinkers,” and “Radyo Somatodelia: Experiments in Sonic Animism.”

Monday, 15 – Friday, 19 January
Kuppelhalle
Free Admisson

Artistic Director: Timo Kreuser 
Dramaturgy: Sophie Emilie Beha
Sound: Carlo Grippe, Goh Lee Kwang, Anne Taegert, Ecki Güther, Timo Kreuser
Production:  Helena Boysen, Paul Timo Kaemmerer, Elise Luong
PHØNIX16: CarrieAnne Winter, Kanae Mizobuchi, Veronika Böhle, Marisol Jiménez, Michael Taylor, Andrew Munn, Oskar Koziolek

Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds