Prof. Nathalie Singer – Art and Design

Radio has been a medium of listening for more than 100 years - worldwide. This is the subject of the six-part podcast “Listening to the World. 100 years of radio art”. On November 22 at 00:05, the first two episodes of the podcast will celebrate their premiere broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

The two residency artists of 2024 are showing their work in two exhibitions. Theo Pluto presents three exhibitions with music under the title “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed”. And Hà Thúy Hằng is showing a multi-channel video and sound installation “...vớt một canh cánh chiêm bao...” (...to grab a disquiet of dreams...).

After three years of research, traveling, workshops and events “Listening to the World - 100 Years of Radio” is now coming to an end. But not without being celebrated! Following the successful event days at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in October 2023, which focused on the regions of South America and Southeast Asia, the upcoming program “Listening to the World – 100 years of radio art” - part 2 on October 19, 2024, will spotlight perspectives and practices from Southern Africa and other regions that are geographically, politically, and sonically connected.

We are looking forward to the upcoming semester. Here you find all courses of the Experimental Radio in Wintersemester 2024/25.

The head of »Experimental Radio« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is publishing a new kind of website in the form of a »Transcultural Listening Map«. The Map makes the interactive exploration of international projects based on cultural techniques of hearing and listening to radio possible. Artists and researchers are invited to participate by adding their own projects to the platform.

Das Experimentelle Radio öffnet am 12. und 13. Juli eine Ausstellung "Finishing the Puzzles - Thüringen in 1500 Teilen" im kulturSCHAUFENSTER in Weimar. Die Ausstellung zeigt zwei Interventionen aus dem Semester und eine Interaktive Installation sowie Podiumsdiskussion und Live Radiosensungen, denen live beigewohnt werden kann.

The first radio talk in the summer semester 2024 with Udo Noll is about his participatory radio art project "radio.earth". The project encourages critical listening to live soundscapes - especially in relation to the ecological crisis. The soundscapes are curated by radio.earth participants.

After two successful workshops in Montevideo (Uruguay) and Sagada (Philippines), the third Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop will now take place in Johannesburg from 17 to 22 March 2024. It will bring together sound practitioners and theorists from Southern Africa to exchange ideas about listening cultures and radio history in the region.

Wie wollen wir altern? Welche Rolle spielen alte Menschen für die Gemeinschaft? Und welche Zukunft haben wir selbst in einer immer älter werdenden Gesellschaft? Diesen und weiteren Fragen sind Studierende der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung an der Professur »Experimentelles Radio« nachgegangen und präsentieren die Ergebnisse nun am Theater Erfurt in einem multimedialen Stück.

Das Audiodrama »Blocked Under Ground« erzählt medienübergreifend von einer Untergrund-Katastrophe. Begleitend zum Hörspiel, dass am Samstag, 20. Januar 2024, 15.05 Uhr, erstmals ausgestrahlt wird, werden ein Audiowalk und ein Audiogame für Smartphones erscheinen. »Blocked under Ground« ist praktischer Teil des Forschungsprojektes von Regine Elbers im Rahmen des Ph.D.-Programms »Kunst und Design« an Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar und wird an der Professur »Experimentelles Radio« betreut.