ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER: Before our mailbox becomes inundated with cries of improper translation, let us offer a riposte to Dante by way of Italo Calvino: there are two ways to escape suffering inferno, says the latter Italian scribe, and the more noble is to locate who and what is worth preserving and "to make them endure, to give them space." No matter how hellish you may find the Whitney Biennial, the Armory Show or, hell, even the Brucennial, the noble effort of providing others with space and endurance is of foremost concern to each, and, for this, we bow our hats to them. Our AIR Stream is also filled with efforts at preservation and endurance: from Luciana Chessa's reconstruction of the Futurist Intonarumori to Erín Moure's English translations of Galician poetry to Danielle Abrams' vast collection of invented personae, each of our guests this week offers precisely the means of escape from our contemporary inferno that we all so direly need. Plus, radio plays Adjusted by Addition and The February Radio Drama will always be by your side, ready to lull you into a world comfortingly distinct from the inferno outside.
JUMP INTO THEIR SPACE: We've put together hours and hours of programming in our stream for you to jump into at any minute. It features programs new and old--check below for descriptions of each--along with a whole slew of music. Click LISTEN to join us mid-stream, or click a listen link below should you prefer any show in particular. And as always, the AIR Archive program pages give you more information on each show as well as providing some useful links and audio on demand.
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AIR STREAM PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK
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NEW ARTonAIR PROGRAMS STREAMING NOW
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AIR Interviews: Chris Akerlind
Tony-Award-winning lighting designer Chris Akerlind explains to Will that sometimes you have to listen to the director and sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Click here for more.
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AIR Interviews: Danielle Abrams
Performance artist Danielle Abrams discusses quadroons and griffons and offers advice to anyone who needs to to clean a tux after bathing in Borscht. Click here for more.
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The Watermill Center: The Constant Reality Theater, The February Radio Drama
Episodes of The February Radio Drama, created by Iceland's The Constant Reality Theater while in residency at The Watermill Center, are available exclusively at ARTonAIR.org, with episodes 5 and 6 currently in the AIR Stream. Click here to listen to all the episodes and find out more.
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Adjusted by Addition: Someone Broke a Spatula on My Body
In the second episode of Adjusted by Addition, AIR's first project in its Radio Theater and Installation Series, we hear tales of electro-convulsive therapy, taboo-shattering sexual encounters and the wonders of first-time meth use. Click here to listen to the first episode and find out more.
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Beyond the Subtitles #266: FROM THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL!
Bobby Sheehan, Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy
Bobby Sheehan, director of Arias with a Twist: The Docufantasy, traveled all around the United States and Europe in order to collect the interviews for his documentary on performance artist Joey Arias and puppeteer Basil Twist. Click here for more.
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Close Listening #99: Erín Moure Reading
Erín Moure is a Montreal-based poet and translator who has composed poetry in English and Galician and translated works into English from Galician, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Here, she reads from her new poetry collection O Resplandor. Click here for more.
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Experimental Composers: Luciano Chessa, L’acoustique ivresse (Les bruits de la Paix)
Composer Luciano Chessa rehearsed his Intonarumori piece L’acoustique ivresse (Les bruits de la Paix) in AIR’s Clocktower space in November 2009. Shocked out of our bourgeois complacency by the sonic blare of those Futurist noise instruments, we realized we had to record the sessions and put them online. Click here for more.
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Channel 192: Claire Harman, Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Critic and biographer Claire Harman, author of the recently released Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, delineates contemporary Austen references, which pop up everywhere from Barack Obama's presidential run to Zinedine Zidane's World Cup headbutt. The event took place at New York's beloved 192 Books. Click here for more.
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LEGACY ARCHIVES
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Recorded Matter: Femmes in Audio Art
Ready for a Louise Bourgeois rap? A leap into the mosh pit with Janine Antoni? Birdcalls from Louise Lawler? Then tune in. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Love Crazy: Love in All Three Dimensions
Joined by former Spongehead, artist David Henderson and his brother Doug Henderson, Nora York makes love to songs and plays songs to love. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Sound and Vision: Oliver Herring
It turns out that the positive Utopian spirit of Oliver Herring's socially engaged practice is accompanied by an appetite for heartrending songs of wounded love and disappointment. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone: You Can Go Home
The title of this episode comes from a song by Reverend Gary Davis, but the sentiment is shared by Joe Fred Williams & Booker T. Williams, Lee Sexton and the Hudson Bay Women. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Sonorama: La Caldera, Edition #2
The sound of Latin American soul, as selected by composer and Buenos Aires native Laura Andel, who plays everything from traditional folk music to the latest computer music. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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PS1 Warm Up 2008: Lisa Shaw Live, Sept. 2008
She makes music so you can make love. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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DJ Sessions: DJ Cosmo's Free Energy Mix
DJ Cosmo is known to New York fans for her longstanding show on WNYU in the 90s. When she later moved to the other side of the pond, London, she created her own imprint label, Bitches Brew. Available only in the AIR Stream.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 March 2010 )
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