visit new radioCona web site  and all about project Radio Arts Space

The selection will be done by the end of september 2011.

We would like to thank all the artists and groups for submitting their works and projects.

pdf info english / slovensko

Selected works will be included in the exhibition Radio As An Arts Space which will be broadcasted and streamed by radioCona, and will appear at in situ locations in December 2011. The exhibition will at the same time occupy the radio frequencies and audio streams of international partners. The broadcast will be constituted as a gallery space with a curated exhibition delineated by the curators’ collection of selected works and featuring works selected through this open call.

About the project Radio As an Arts Space:
The title that defines the activities of art project radioCona – a project temporary radio station for contemporary arts intentionally bears the name of the space Radio As An Art Space. A project with such a name forms and structures exhibiting of contemporary art works that fall into the fields of radio art and sound art. Radio As An Arts Space investigates the possibilities of a constitution of an international radio project model for artistic contents and exchange of audio works. Our aim is to stimulate discourse about the production of radiophonic art projects and discursive artistic contents among expert audiences, artists and art organisations. The project Radio As An Arts Space will examine how a radio frequency can become a gallery space for contemporary art and analyse the constitution of a format of temporary radio broadcasting, as one of the options.

Please send your works (links to websites, ftp, dropbox, sendspace, etc.) to the e-mail address: cona(at)cona.si in the following format: mp3 (stereo, 16bit, 160kbps or more). Audio CDs, DVDs, or data discs (wav, aiff) can be snail mailed to: CONA, Peričeva 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia-EU.

Application deadline is June 25, 2011. Please include all the information regarding the work, artists and producers. (formats: odt, doc, pdf)

Contact: cona(at)cona.si

partners: RAM LIVE (Italy), Kiosk and Novi Radio Beograd (Serbia)
supported by: European Cultural Foundation, Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Culture

broadcast caledar (pdf)

RADIO AS AN ARTS SPACE – STATION ZONE – curated by Irena Pivka, Ilari Valbonesi, Brane Zorman – will act as a sound art platform, intersecting selected archives from Rome and Ljubljana broadcasting sound art productions, texts and interviews from radioCona, Radio Študent, Maurizio Nannucci, SoundArtMuseum, RAM, MGLC, ŠKUC, Galerija P74, artists archives and ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) project.

The project is curated by Irena Pivka, Ilari Valbonesi in Brane Zorman.

Program radioCona RADIO AS AN ARTS SPACE – STATION ZONE is a part of a COMPAGNI DI VIAGGO exhibition, curated by: Alenka Gregorič, Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia

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program ARCHIVE SELECTION

Maurizio Nannuchi / Zona Radio, interview by Brane Zorman, sound works from SoundArtMuseum
listen mp3, 1.43.45/98.8MB

Ilari Valbonesi / The Paradigm of Listening (sound, voice, audience, radioart) Lecture
listen mp3, 1.30.03/128.9MB

radioCona, interview with Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman by Ilari Valbonesi, radioCona production works
listen mp3, 1.26.45/125.0MB

MGLC (Breda Škrjanec), The Study Room for Prints, Artist’s Books, and Other Printed Sound Ephemera interview by Ilari Valbonesi, sound works from MGLC archive
listen mp3, 1.34.24/90.7MB

Irwin, audioarts, Laibach, interview with Irwin by Ilari Valbonesi, interview with Laibach from Radio Študent archive
listen mp3, 2.01.24/175.2MB

P74 (Tadej Pogačar) – Blixa Bargeld, Interview by Ilari Valbonesi, interview with Blixa Bargeld from Radio Študent archive
listen mp3, 1.34.24/90.7MB

ŠKUC (Tevž Logar) – Deviantovi fragmenti, Interview by Ilari Valbonesi, Deviantovi fragmenti from Radio Študent archive
listen mp3, 59.18/85.5MB

Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni, Interview by Irena Pivka, sound works from RAM Live  and SAM archive
listen mp3, 1.04.58/62.5MB

produced by – radioCona / CONA
partners of the project: Mestna Galerija Ljubljana, Zerynthia / RAM Live, Novi Radio Beograd
project RADIO AS AN ART SPACE is cofinanced by  European Cultural Foundation ECF(BIFC)
project radioCona is cofinanced by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana

listen (mp3, 1.10.47/65MB)   ConaCast

The Paradigm of Listening
(Sound, Voice, Body, Audience, Radio Art).

Sound is attractive. It catches the ear, enchants, disturbs, and scares. But it is also imperative. Sound is both a means and an end. The decisive interest devoted to the “strange” reflexivity of sound became a paradoxical instance of art, music and philosophy in the twentieth century. Further, it has encouraged the emergence of a genuine “paradigm of listening” from which I take steps to trace the event of a conceptual category of plastic art so called Sound Art : Art of Sound, that reflecting on itself, defines its own historical context.

Sound hits us where our disposition is already a move towards the “given” sound, for that hearing which accords and affords us whatever there really is to hear. Which means there is an “eventual” sound, which happens in-between me and the things in-between me and others: Sound originates “elsewhere” even though we are implicated. The sound of the voice is also erotic. It’s like an intercourse in between own and alien. It’s magnetic and it orients us in space, it defines boundaries and mixes the real and the imagined. We can experience the public nature of the audience, the spatiality of sound in its symbolic occurrences in buildings that accommodate the aesthetic experience of sound: the theatre, concert hall, the square from the gallery, and the auditorium of the woods. But this is not the proper meaning of sound in space, nor qualifies its access to a space. Sound is more of a timeless space. The body itself is an instrument that records its environment while reconfiguring existing environments. In 2004 I coined the phrase ‘Acusmatic ethics’ to describe the interspecific character of sound and its synthetic temporality. If we understand that listening to something is to record it, recording itself is also a kind of ‘answering’ behavior. Obviously, radio, tapes, samplers are able to isolate, alter and focus the processes of distribution and use of sound. But in this direction, “synthetic” claims is more of a “critique” of instruments and traditional research, including electronic, plastic art that belongs to music “educated” and that “popular” and doesn’t seem to characterize a specific field. This brought me to think of Radio as ethical space of sound and special environment of trading cultures and languages of contemporary art.

Short BIO Ilari Valbonesi (Rome, 1968).
Art critic and independent curator of art exhibitions, web projects and intermedia events. Extensive experience in Radio and Television Production. Freelance Editor for ARTE E CRITICA and other magazines. 1997, Graduated in Philosophy on “Responsive Phenomenology” through the thought of B. Waldenfels, Università “La Sapienza”, Rome. 1995-1997, Internship at the Graduierten-Kolleg of “Ruhr-Universität” Bochum, Germany. 2001-2002, Master Degree in Political Science on Human Rights, “Libera Università degli Studi San Pio V”, Rome. 2002-2003, Master Degree in Political Science on Gender Policies, “Università degli Studi Roma Tre”, Rome. 2003, Internship at Italian Commission for Equal Opportunities at the Cabinet. 2002-2004, IT Consultant at Ministry of Finance for HR and Diversity Management. 2007-2010 Director of RAM LIVE, one of the first internet radio stations to discuss the field in-between visual Arts, Music and Sound research within ethical perspectives. 2010, Chief Curator of ROMA. RADIO. ART. FAIR the first web radio launched by Roma the Road to Contemporary Art with the aim of networking and experimentation.