RADURA (52° 29' 18.12'' N / 13° 29' 51'' E) is a site-specific project by Vittoria Assembri and Gaia Ginevra Giorgi, co-produced by Q-02 (Bruxelles) and La Friche (Marseille).
During the next week, the artists in residency will engage the Gaswerksiedlung’s community and neighbourhood in a series of aware crossing practices that will converge in a participative sound performance on Saturday, October the 23rd.
The invitation is inclusive and extended to everybody.
Check the program below for all detailed information.
Gaia and Vittoria experiment with archives of sound landscapes that reflect on the theme of liminal, waste, residue: field recordings, vocal soundscapes, poems, sound installations, in a close relationship with the architectural space and its crossings (human and non-human).
It is also a practice of poetic-urban investigation that betrays the space of the visible by translating it into new affective and occult cartography. By means of sound mappings and poetic translations of fantastic urban archaeology, we wish to produce a situated utopia, which undermines geography as a centralized control device - where the non-neutral role of the observer is a generator of reality.
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RADURA (52° 29' 18.12'' N / 13° 29' 51'' E)
By Vittoria Assembri and Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
Co-produced by Q-02 (Bruxelles) and Manifactures des Tabac (Marseille)
With the support of Rooms of Kairos
RADURA
= clearing, glade : an area with few or no trees or shrubs in wooded or overgrown land
RADURA is an achievable utopia. It is material, situated, and temporary. It is a site-specific project, imagined for the Klingenberg power station and the community that inhabits the Gaswerksiedlung on Köpenicker Chaussee, on the border between the Berliner districts of Rummelsburg and Lichtenberg.
RADURA comes to life in the residual space lingering between the Vattenfall Wärme power plant (which has run the heating business in Berlin since 1927), the ICE Werk train maintenance plant (with an operational area of about 625,000 square metres), and Funkhaus Berlin (former headquarters of DDR’s Rundfunk, the state radio and broadcasting company of the German Democratic Republic).
We are accustomed to thinking of cities starting from their fullness of solid constructions. RADURA is an experiment of radical politics that intends to let us reflect together on the theme of the ‘urban clearing’, of the negative space, of the liminal, the provisional, the Third Passage, the residue.
As research in progress, RADURA involves decolonising and anti-capitalist practices that are designed for bodies to relate with the landscape they cross.
Field recording techniques are integrated into the workflow as an opportunity to rewrite the space.
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RADURA is branched into four exercises of embodied and radical imagination:
Day 1 - DRIFT IN THE GLADE: a participative practice open to all, conceived to rewrite the ‘empty space’ or better to rewrite the landscape, intended as the ever mutable result of the species’ joint actions.
In this case, such reformulation is induced through a drifting walk and programmatically disorganised crossing. According to the principle of dis-planning and unproductivity, the desire is to defuse social, cultural and economic patterns. The soundscape of the drift will be recorded.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 17.00 / 18.30
Day 2 - SHARING STORIES: a horizontal transmission of knowledge and embodied experiences against the main narrative, open to the whole community of the neighbourhood.
In the belief that telling stories is more generative than studying history, old and new inhabitants are invited to share anecdotes, facts, and memories related to the territory. Testimonies will be recorded only if the participants agree.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 17.00 / 18.30
Day 3 - THE PROMISES OF MONSTERS: a workshop of fantastic archaeology, a post-human practice, monstrous, fragmentary, and incomplete.
Together the participants will give life to a speculative fabula about the glade and its inhabitants, human and non-human. Through the spontaneous collection of autochthonous materials, we will witness the emergence of new affective systems of symbols, cases of heteroglossia, mythopoeic alphabets will emerge. The sounds of the found objects will be recorded.
Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 17.00 / 18.30
Day 4 - RADURA: opening and presentation at the end of the residency.
In the previous days, the artists have documented multiple and diverse experiences through sound mappings that are now installed in the space and generate new sonic rooms to inhabit. Participants are invited to design and build something in a cooperative dimension, to weave elements, and to reinvent once again the materials collected during the week.
Collisions of sound materials, trades, exchanges and relationships will be the conspiring engines of the site-specific sound performance that will take place on Saturday, October 23, 2021 - 15.30 / 17.30.
MEET UP POINT - You can find us at Köpenicker Chaussee 32, 10317 Berlin.
We suggest arriving a little before the beginning of the activity. Dress up warm and comfortable (your shoes might get a little dirty).
CONTACT - In case need any further information, feel free to reach us at this number - 0049 157 50450333. The phone will be off during the experience.
BIOS
Vittoria Assembri (France) is an architectural and sound researcher. Her practice explores the territories that are usually considered marginal, from an architectural and sound point of view. She focuses her research on the regeneration of urban spaces as the recovery of building heritage that pursues sustainable sociability and social diversity. She deepens on the notion of Third Passage, as an oblique and unconventional condition, of abandoned spaces invested by spontaneous forms of other species.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi (Italy) is a poet, sound artist, performer, and researcher. She has published Manovre segrete (Interno Poesia, 2017) and L’animale nella fossa (Miraggi Edizioni, 2021). Her research is oriented towards the generative possibilities of intercode poetry: she experiments with vocal soundscapes, and studies the relationships between text, voice, new electronic devices, and architectural space, creating site-specific projects.
LINKS TO THE ARTISTS’ RELEASES AND RADIO WORKS
https://oceani.bandcamp.com/album/racconto-concreto
https://soundcloud.com/user-394754592-957183462
https://www.fangoradio.com/shows/158
https://radiopapesse.org/en/archive/radia/radia-show-850-echantillons-sonores
https://www.radiopapesse.org/it/archivio/sonora/scivolare-il-po