Radio history points to constellations of power and resistance. This also allows to trace narratives and developments in the political, social and cultural history of the region around Uruguay. Starting with the first telegraphy in Bolivia in 1897 and the first entertainment broadcasts in Buenos Aires in 1920, through the mining stations in the 1930s, as well as military radio use during the dictatorships, to today’s radio art scene in Latin America with numerous community radios.
In the »Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop #1« in Montevideo, resulting questions will be explored: How has radio influenced the way we listen? What listening practices have developed over the last 100 years? And what contribution can listening make to a world of the future?
Together, the invited sound artists and researchers will explore the questions of hearing and listening in their diversity and transcultural interconnection. They will listen to archives with previously unknown material - for example, the voices of former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or the Aguaruna, an indigenous people in the Peruvian jungle. And they will examine 100 years of radio in Latin America, as well as questions about the ecology of listening and the political potential of radio collectives.
Renowned sound artists and radio researchers from Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay - such as Fernando Godoy (Radio Tsonami), Fátima González Donado (Community Radio Amazondas), Guely Morató (Sonandes, Bolivia) and Lukas Kühne (Director Instituto de Música Facultad de Artes - UdelaR) – have been invited. The five-day Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop in Montevideo will take place during the cross-regional festival »EXIT« for experimental art.
