³          2021

radio installation

radio transmitter, antennas, radio receiver, speakers (400 x 400 x 200 cm)

At the start of the winter semester 2021/2022 Klasse Philipsz began delving into the world of analogue radio. We explored various radio archives and studied works by artists that were designed for transmission, culminating in a radio workshop. Each student engaged in their own way with the material to produce a unique sound work that has been designed for transmission. The project was titled Radio International and was experienced in the Senatsaal of the HfBK Brühlsche Terrasse .While most transmission art is made to be experienced at home or from a private location we set out to produce transmissions that would be experienced as a sound installation within a specific architectural context. 

For Manifesta 14 Prishtina*, Susan Philipsz is collaborating with students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden and the Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina. Influenced by Guglielmo Marconi, the pioneer of radio, the collaboration explores the idea that sounds once generated never die, they fade but they continue to reverberate as sound waves across the universe.

The group, called Radio International Prishtina, will develop sound works based around an online archive.