Karen Werner
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 Strange Radio Series of assemblage radio broadcasts about time and Holocaust postmemory in Vienna, Austria. Currently experienced as live changing narrowcast radio performances.
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Strange Radio - Ongoing

Series of assemblage radio broadcasts about time and Holocaust postmemory in Vienna, Austria. Currently experienced as live changing narrowcast radio performances.

Receiving, transmitting, disarming, dispersing...
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Episode 7: Haus, part 2: Zirkus
The old circuses on nearby Zirkusgasse provide a strange form: an antenna “aerial" artist, telephone high wire act, multi-headed speaking choir, flea circus and performers. Initially created as 8-channel sound installation at projectroom MAG3 in Vienna. Artistic contributions from Reni Hofmüller, Benjy Fox-Rosen, Elisabeth Kelvin, and Der Sprechchor led by Bruno Pisek.

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Episode 6: Haus, part 1: Covenant of the Tongue
Psalms, kabbalah, mud, vocalizations, my family's home on Novaragasse, occupied as a "Judenhaus." Initially produced as 8-channel public sound installation, Tonspur Kunstverein Wien 2018. Along with Haus part 2, adapted for ORF/01's Kunstradio in April 2018.

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Episode 5: Strange Time(s)
First broadcast on Dec. 16, 2016
Time flows in many directions; Zen master Dogen; the touch of older skin; a visit to the therapist.

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Episode 4: Strange Language
First broadcast on Dec 9, 2016

Hoover the harbor seal; German for beginners; songs by Vicky Wehrmeister in her made up languages; Der Sprechchor mummerings, and the Wenker German dialect experiments of old. Trauma interrupts coherent thought –and the only language possible becomes strange.
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Episode 3: Postcards from the Second Basement
First broadcast on Dec. 2, 2016

Nazi-era madness at the Medical School's Pharmacology Department; postcards of the Austrian Resistance; a father and young daughter gently latching fingers and eyes.
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Episode 2: The Stranger (12 min. excerpt)
First broadcast on Nov. 25, 2016
A 1911 recording of Exodus; the overgrown Währinger Jewish cemetery being cleaned by members of the Green Party; meanings of the name Gershon, son of Zipporah and Moses; the stranger.

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Episode 1: Transmission

A text found in the sidewalk; a ritual for radiophonics; a 1913 recording of Viennese Cantor Jakob Bauer; a duet for field recording (featuring my mother walking on Novaragasse) and phoned-in science of transmission.
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Episode 0: Jetzt Höre Ich/ Now I Hear (7:30)
An early dispatch from Vienna produced for Live Art Magazine, Northampton, MA, 2016. Selected for International Features Conference, Prague in 2018.

My body knew where to go, arrived at a door and looked down. My mother reads some of the German and English.


 
 
                                                                                                          
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