Shawn Wilson says “relationships do not merely shape reality, they are reality.” During my artistic research PhD in Relational Sound Practices, I have inquired about relationality through radio. I relate to relationality in artistic, philosophical and spiritual activist ways. Radio is constituted through a powerful dynamic between electricity and magnetism, as well as between senders and receivers. This micro-FM performance-lecture will journey through my practice of creating experimental-conceptual radio stations to collectively consider: what is relationality and why does it matter for art-making and more?
Karen Werner is an artist and sociologist making experimental radio stories and live performance for broadcast and narrowcast. She creates conceptual radio stations of various scales and forms including SkottegatenFM and Radio Multe93.8FM and is a member of the international feminist group, Shortwave Collective. In December she will launch a durational secret broadcast, "Seijo and her Soul." Karen lives in Bergen and is an Artistic Research PhD Fellow at KMD.
Monday Lectures is a public platform combining invited guest lecturers and professors and researchers of the faculty at KMD. Monday Lectures aim to create a diverse programme of lectures exploring a wide range of disciplines and research topics. Lectures typically take place Mondays 10:00 at the Knut Knaus Auditorium and are free and open to all.
Image by Leena Ylä-Lyly.