WGBS (Archipelagic) Radio
This radio show is the result of conversations and working relationships that navigate the concept of what an archipelagic construction could mean, in terms of organization, belonging, and self.
Archipelagic (W)aterways
Archipelagic (G)overnance
Archipelagic (B)elonging
Archipelagic (S)tructures
October 14, Wednesday
Rotterdam 1400–1545h CET
Manila 8:00–9:45pm GMT+8
RADIO: https://varia.zone/en/pages/stream.html
CHAT: https://webchat.freenode.net/ Channel: #varia
PAD: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/WGBSAMRadioR
Geography
(ISLAND) Varia
A Rotterdam space for developing collective approaches around everyday technology.
(ISLAND) To Be Determined
A transitional, migratory structure (or yet-to-be-determined network) of sleeper cells that activate–deactivate for leaking access to cultural capital.
(ISLAND) EtnikoBandido Infoshop
A community center located in the slums of Pasig, Metro Manila dedicated to anti-authoritarian social relations and critical and technical thinking against systematic cultured mind-setting.
History
This radio broadcast is the result of conversations and working relationships that navigate the concept of what an archipelagic construction could mean, in terms of organization, belonging, and self. It was constructed between an archipelago of friends such as but not limited to Angeliki, Asher, Bas, Chung, Clara, Reinaart, and Tanex.
This radio broadcast departs from conversations about the essay Sketches of Archipelagic Poetics of Postcolonial Belonging by maryamdeluz and Marco Cuevas-Hewitt. The essay is an (island) of a mutual aid anarchozine package compiled by EtnikoBandido. The zine package was an (island) of Comfort People Safety Curtain 24 Hour Souvenir Shop—a collective work produced by an active cell of To Be Determined. The art work was an (island) of the Fictioning Comfort show curated by Worknot at Showroom Mama Gallery from July–September 2020. Financing received for this archipelagic construction from the Mondrian Funds and Stimuleringsfonds was redistributed more or less equally to all the islands.
This self-funded radio broadcast is part of the Terracotta Universe City workshop by Jatiwangi Art Factory (Jawa Barat) for students of WdKA (Rotterdam) and ZhDK (Zurich).
Archipelagic Conversation
Panelists and moderators will be experimenting with a proposed format of archipelagic conversation, allowing for silence (water) to flow between speech (islands). Mimicking conventions of shortwave radio, after a speaker is done with their intervention, they will say "over." The rest of the group will wait approximately 5 seconds before adding a response. This is a welcoming of (radio) silence as a necessary part of (archipelagic) conversation. The listening public is encouraged to have parallel conversations on the IRC chat window, where it is OK to chat on top of the speakers. Moderators will be actively monitoring IRC to give voice/volume to the listener.
Graphics
The fliers below were designed by Hardworking Goodlooking/Czar Kristoff using only MS Word. The last image, outlined in yellow-orange-black bats, is a collection of references used in the design process. At HWGL, care is taken to give aggressive credit to anonymous, found, and otherwise semi-invisible sources that get lost in a design project's dissemination. No to extractive biting/mining/"remixing" by people with more than enough volume/taking credit without due respect!!! Yes to giving credit/showing genealogy/admitting you have a debt of gratitude to the world around you/dismantling the idea of creative pioneers (there is no such thing, pretty much everything is a construct of your influences and your history)!!!
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