Can listening be a tool for care and social cohesion? Which spaces do radio and performance share? Can radio invent new possibilities for collective practices? Can we rethink disability as a horizon by which to reinvent artistic languages in sound-performativity?
Notwithstanding the attention given in the last decades to the necessity to ensure people with disabilities the same rights to a full personal, social and cultural life, much has still to be done on a practical level. In particular, audiences, arts professionals, and artists with disabilities all report significant barriers to full participation in cultural production and realization processes, worsened the recent pandemic. In this framework, the cultural community has been investigating new forms of cultural creation, distribution and realization, with the support of innovative or renewed tools and practices. These developments find reference in the concept of Acoustic Justice defined by the artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, which recognizes the urgencies around hearing and being heard.
Starting from this research, Radio That Matters gathers together local and international institutions to develop innovative practices and discursive platforms aimed at exploring relationships between the performative and the acoustic which can contribute to guaranteeing greater accessibility.
RTM searches for ways to open new spaces for encounter within regimes of aurality today.
Radio That Matters is an innovative European project led by AREA06 / Short Theatre (IT) together with Errant Sound (DE), Paralèlle (FR), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), PAV s.n.c. (IT) and Radio Papesse (IT), Azienda di Servizi alla Persona disabile visiva S. Alessio – Margherita di Savoia (IT) and Al. Di. Qua Artists (IT) as Associated Partner.
WHAT’S RADIO THAT MATTERS?
Radio That Matters is a «Creative Europe» small scale project aimed at investigating the crossroads between disability / sound research / performing arts and seeking to design new methodologies for accessing art on behalf of blind and visually impaired persons specifically. Starting from the notion of Acoustic Justice, RTM will explore how acoustics can be a tool for strengthening a cohesive and accessible society. Furthermore, it brings focus to research on the possibility for the performing arts to be experienced via sound as a new form of presence and participation which can assist in enhancing approaches to disability.
WHO IS IN RADIO THAT MATTERS?
3 Performing arts festivals → Short Theatre (Rome), Parallèle (Marseille), Baltic Circle (Helsinki)
1 Centre for dramaturgy production and dissemination → PAV s.n.c (Rome)
1 Sound Art Gallery committed to research works in sound → Errant Sound (Berlin)
1 Webradio dedicated to the sound research à Radio Papesse (Florence)
1 Institution dedicated to the autonomy and social inclusion of the blind and visually impaired à Azienda di Servizi alla Persona disabile visiva S. Alessio – Margherita di Savoia (Rome)
1 Association of and for people with disabilities in the performing arts (Italy) à Al.Di.Qua Artists
+ several national webradio
+ several cultural and social associations
WHAT RADIO THAT MATTERS DOES?
Radio That Matters brings together cultural and social operators, artists, and people with and without visual disabilities in an in-depth and layered pathway, involving different levels: the theoretical and practical recognition on the state of participatory art practices, accessibility of culture, and the possibilities inherent in sound and acoustic languages; the definition of a shared methodology to make artistic work accessible and sustainable both from the point of view of production and its realization and communication; trainings and pedagogies to raise awareness on the topic of accessibility and acoustic justice for artists, professionals, and audiences, providing a framework in which to experiment with community and exchange knowledge.
The journey of RTM will create acoustic-performances that are inherently accessible to persons with visual impairment, giving life to a digital and disseminated festival across time and space, sustainable and entirely accessible, that will travel between European countries and beyond.
CALENDAR:
- 24—26.03.2023 | Errant Bodies (Berlin)
Kick off meeting
coordinated and curated by Brandon LaBelle (Errant Sound), Piersandra Di Matteo (Short Theatre)
- 25.03.2023 | Errant Bodies (Berlin)
Opening conference
with Brandon LaBelle (Errant Sound), Kate Donovan (Shortwave Collective), Nico Daleman (Cashmere Radio), Mario Asef (Errant Sound), Ece Pazarbasi (Field Kitchen Academy), Jacopo Lantieri & Elisabeth Leopold (Tanzfabrik Berlin/Partner of the network “Making a Difference”), Piersandra Di Matteo (Short Theatre)
- 27—28.04.2023 | Università Iuav di Venezia – Badoer (Venice)
Elena Biserna
Going out – Walking bodies
seminar
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo / Short Theatre
in collaboration with SSH! Sound Studies Hub | Iuav – centro studi
- 07—10.09.2023 | Short Theatre 2023 (Rome)
Riverberi resistenti
curated by Giulia Crisci / Short Theatre
in collaboration with Insieme Siamo Arte 2023 Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, ATCL
- 03 + 20.11.2023 | fermento ambienti memorie ascolti (Rome)
Piersandra Di Matteo, Leandro Pisano
Sonodramma
curated by Irene Dani, Irene Aurora Paci
in collaboration with zonaincerta, AREA06 / Short Theatre, Radio Perepepè/Sync Ets
with the support of MiC and of Roma Capitale
- 26 + 16 + 30.11.2023 | fermento ambienti memorie ascolti (Rome)
Alessandro Coltré, Andrea Borgnino, Piersandra Di Matteo
Disco Diffuso 2
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo
in collaboration with Associazione 21 luglio Onlus / Polo ex Fienile, ASP S. Alessio – Margherita di Savoia, Roma Capitale – Municipio VIII
with the support of MiC and of Roma Capitale
- 02 + 09 + 16 + 21.11.2024
Lucia Scazzocchio, Kristina Loring, Lucif Dalin, Astrid Hald & Rikke Houd, Raymond Antrobus
YASS! 2023
digital masterclass
a project by Radio Papesse
in collaboration with AREA06 / Short Theatre
with the support of Comune di Firenze and Fondazione CR Firenze
- 17—25.11.2023 | Baltic Circle – International Theatre Festival (Helsinki)
- 17.11.2023
Eilien, Alex Andra Rekola
Music for birds and others: Eilien & Pink-187
listening session - 18.11.2023
Raoni Muzho Saleh & Abel Kroon
TRANS(IN) MOAN(IN)
listening session - 19.11.2023
Sokeain Kuunnelmaraati, Elis Hannikaien, Vappu Jalonen
Sound drawings
listening session + talk - 20.11.2023
Raoni Muzho Saleh
Gathering in a Multi-vocal MOOOOAAAAAAANN Ensures Solidarity
lecutre - 20–24.11.2023
Raoni Muzho Saleh
Moaning Choir
workshop - 24.11.2023
Raoni Muzho Saleh
The Never Ending Moaning of a Polyphonic Choir
open rehearsal
- 17.11.2023
- 06.12.2023 | Università Iuav di Venezia – Cotonificio (Venice)
Brandon LaBelle
Negative Poetics
with Nicola Di Croce e Piersandra Di Matteo
lecture and conversation
promoted by Dipartimento di culture del progetto SSH! Sound Studies Hub | Iuav – centro studi
- 25.01.2024—10.02.2024 | Festival Parallèle 14 (Marseille and Aix-en-Provence)
- 20.12.2023
Elena Biserna meets ASLAA-Marseille association and Parallèle Team - 03.02.2024
Maud Blandel meets ASLAA-Marseille association - 04.02.2024
Maude Blandel
L’œil nu
feedback session - 03–04.02.2024
Dorothée Munyaneza
A Cappella
museum sound listening - 08.02.2024
Manon Worms e Hakim Bah
Indestructible
reading - 10.02.2024
DOM-, Anne Lise Le Gac e Louise Nicollon des Abbayes
HOLE(S) and HILL(S) heal (Trou(s) et Colline(s) guérissent) — Rituels, Pratiques et Outils partagés dans des systèmes vivants imbriqués
talk
- 20.12.2023
- 11.04.2024 | Università Iuav di Venezia – Badoer (Venice)
Diana Lola Posani
Ascoltare l’ascolto
seminar
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo / Short Theatre
within the frame of the course Curatela delle arti performative | IUAV Teatro e arti performative
in collaboration with SSH! Sound Studies Hub | Iuav – centro studi
- 19.04.2024 | Università Iuav di Venezia – Badoer (Venice)
Diana Anselmo / Al Di Qua Artists
Contro-acustica
seminar
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo / Short Theatre
within the frame of the course Curatela delle arti performative | IUAV Teatro e arti performative
- 02.05.2024 | Università Iuav di Venezia – Badoer (Venice)
Andrea Borgnino
Radiofonia tra performance e politica
curated by Piersandra Di Matteo / Short Theatre
within the frame of the course Curatela delle arti performative | IUAV Teatro e arti performative
in collaboration with SSH! Sound Studies Hub | Iuav – centro studi
- 04–06.06.2024 + 24–26.06.2024 | ASP S. Alessio – Margherita di Savoia (Rome)
Alessandro Bosetti
Una memoria di suoni
workshop
by AREA06 in collaboration with Short Theatre
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