SUB_ʇXƎʇ R∀DIO
sub_ʇxǝʇ is an itinerant platform for research, discussion and sonic knowledge production.
It produces and distributes radio programmes across a thematic spectrum ranging from investigative reporting to experimental sound and music. Our goal is to enable practitioners, to have a maximum of 50% males performing and to explore how media reflect our relationships to democracy. Hexbump images created with Nabil Sami.
Live every first Wednesday of the Month as Radio Against Repression at 17.00-18.00 CET:
https://studioansage.de/empfang/
88,4 FM BERLIN 90,7 FM POTSDAM
And as Podcast
Roots & Kulture
In 2012 the European Cultural Foundation commissioned the Wasteland Twinning Network (WTN) to produce a set of investigative radio essays into three European urban wastelands. When active, the Wasteland Twinning Network hijacked the concept of ‘City Twinning’ and applied it to urban Wastelands in order to generate a network for parallel research and action. The commission became Wasted Common by author, artist, musician and then Research Associate at Nottingham University, David Bell and Dogged Lands by artist and author Alex Head.
These intensely worked pieces that employ interviews from across Europe, original musical scores and compositions, set the bar for what would one day become the sub_ʇxǝʇ project. They also demonstrate the viability of sonic documentation that is sensitive to precarious environments, criminalised recreational activity and communities who do not posses stable legal status.
Part two of Dogged Lands is under-titled Frustrated Strategies of Resistance and this has been prescient of the ongoing enclosures of land, studios, living space and so-called horizontal networks in Berlin
(as elsewhere) in the past decade.
As a direct response to what was at that time an increasingly blurred sphere that began to merge private, professional and personal ambitions, the sub_ʇxǝʇ platform sought to create a new form of collaborative, specifically radio based practice.
Inspired by the organisational structure of WTN, this new platform sought to allow for researchers and practitioners to delve deeply into their subject, working within the predetermined parameters of the engagement.
In this way the sub_ʇxǝʇ collaborative process is focused and outcome oriented without, one hopes, precluding ongoing dialogue.
The project was founded in 2017 by artist Alex Head. The project has aired live from across Europe and beyond, broadcasting with Threads radio London until 2023.
Radio Against Repression: S1 E1 Policing Education
With performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, jewelz, an independent radio activist of 10 years, and artist and author Alex Head. Guest contributions from Aviad Albert, an Israeli citizen working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Thomas Herzmark, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen and Carmen an academic working in the field of religion in Germany.
Radio Against Repression is the radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone. To witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.