Radio Broadcast 'Seasides, Wings and MicrĂłfonos', Episode 1
doves bring the love sound in a round ring, wings hide the air from a mouths breath, sing flaps a hum, overlapped clouds ride with care through the tides, to belong here, lungs flat mesh sings a hum
The Salt of the Earth, de Appel’s COOP study group at Dutch Art Institute, collectively explores land and water as formative resources of culture, knowledge, and resistance in a time of ongoing extraction and dispossession. Moving across critical theory, oral histories, embodied practices and sound as a commons, the COOP engages traditions as living structures of feeling that shape the present and imagine alternative futures. Fragments and reflections from the study group are shared through Radio Alhara, with the first episode of this year's study group, Seasides, Wings and Micrófonos, airing on Thursday 22 January, 10:00 CET.
Seasides, Wings and Micrófonos emerges from the workshop Politics of Sound, Time, and Space with artist and researcher Dirar Kalash; departing from sound as a time/space of struggle rather than a technical medium. The study group turned to the politics of time, approaching history not as a linear sequence but as something lived from within. The workshop insisted on situated experience, asking how practices of resistance are produced by fragmentation, interruption, and return. In listening sessions proposed by Dirar Kalash — starting from a physical perspective on frequencies, rhythms in space and moving toward how we listen against oppressive forms of knowledge production — listening itself became a critical practice where sound holds memory, rehearses resistance, and imagines forms of presence that persist despite erasure.
This episode is a collaboration between Shiva Yourdkhani, Aimée Phillips and Javier R. Perez-Curiel