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Radio: That is the non-local, disembodied voice. Terrorism: that is the painful destruction of an illusion of virtuality. By means of two hardship case studies of KIDNAPPINGS, the new productions for Kunstradio’s „Literature as Radio Art“ series focus on the (symbolic) bodies behind the „disembodied voice“. Birgit Kempker develops a perfidious text with oedipal enmeshment deriving from the situation of the hostage, a fictive monologue of a daughter pleaing to her father for ransom. Conversely, Hanno Millesi’s text collage which the author composed from stiffs, slogans, and media documents dealing with the RAF and the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer, maps the web of references of delinquents who, on their behalf – think of „Stammheim“ – regarded themselves as hostages of the constitutional state. Whether, in form of a monologue, as in Birgit Kempker’s „Papa, short version“ or as in Hanno Millesi’s „Terrorema“ a polyphonic spread: the sound works are based exclusively on the voices of the artists – saving any other recordings. In 5.1. Surround via OE1DD. (Christiane Zintzen, Curator) |
I. Papa, short versionby Birgit KempkerText + Voice: Birgit Kempker
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II. Terrorema. Under my skin starts the liberated zoneby Hanno MillesiText+Voice: Hanno Millesi
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