Eran Schaerf - Listener's Voice

Listener’s voice gathers five scripts for radio broadcasts and/or spaces. Schaerf turns his concept of a radio station, operated by an automatic moderator that is programmed to transmit listener’s calls, into an editorial/design principle. Six frequency-like tracks featuring the different scripts along the publication enable the reader to switch from one narrative to another. While the automatically operated radio station Listener’s Voice questions the notion of programming and its consequences on the public character of the media, the publication and its undetermined reading direction address the reader as narrator. The publication includes Scenario Data (Projektraum Kunsthalle Bern, 1999), Listener’s Voice (Bayerischer Rundfunk/Radio Drama and Media Art, 2002), As if Said. A theater or taxi play (a.o. MUHKA/BRTN-Radio3, 1997), War and Peace in the Dictionary (Manifesta 2, Luxembourg), Migrants & Variants (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden/argos Brussels, 2000/1), as well as the essays Out of Place in an architectural Setting by Margrit Brehm and out of sync (few intros and outros) by Raimundas Malasauskas.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Migrants & Variants, which took place at Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden) from 19 November 2000 to 14 January 2001 and at argos (Brussels) from 12 May to 23 June 2001.

author: Eran Schaerf
design: Claudia De Backer
publisher: argos editions (Brussels)
year: 2001
book: 17 x 24 cm, 136 pages
ISBN: 9076855064
price: €17,50

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