"bombus terrestris revisited #4"
by Hartmut Geerken
December 10th 2001 - 8pm
CET
A Party for the Ears: 100.
Hörspielmontag
(100th Monday of Radio Drama -
hoerspiel)
Live on line - on site
"bombus terrestris revisited
#4" (originally produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk in
1998) is the first version of the work-in-progress
not to be simultaneously broadcast on
air. It is, however, the second one to be experienced as a
live webcast. In each version, Hartmut Geerken
adds a new live-layer to the
previous versions: in a process of
highly intensive reception/production, the artist
in his own voice, and in the context of a new
constellation of space/time-, social/medial
parameters, inscribes a new trace into the
recorded work.
The months' long recordings of bumble-bees -
the basic material of this sisyphos-like struggle between the
present and its archiving - lends an additional layer of
associations to a complex discourse on "nature"
and "technology".
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