[Nettime-nl] vrijdag/friday 12 Augustus 2005 Den Bosch Radio invasie & Radio Ballet 95.2 FM

[Tjebbe van Tijen <t.tijen@chello.nl>]

Invasion of the Radio Listeners

Normality
The inner city of den Bosch is a fortress to defend normality. It’s 
city walls are made to keep out everything, that might stir up the 
atmosphere of a nice late medieval city: noise, traffic and modern 
architecture. Succesfully: even the poorer inhabitants of the quarters 
around the inner city are not visiting it very often. Why do the 
inhabitants of Den Bosch love their city wall so much? Is it, that they 
are still haunted by the big trauma of their history, the invasion of 
the Other, the protestant troups, in 1629 - the end of the ancient 
great time of the city?

Commodification
Today the walls defend the city against every use, which is not focused 
on shopping and consuming. The exchange of commodities and its 
dispersed repetition of always the same rituals and gestures has become 
the only purpose of the inner city area: walking, stopping, exchanging 
goods. When it is over, life vanishes immediately. Any kind of 
difference or even deviancy is banned from this island of normality – 
like in every european inner city. Usually this does not even need 
force. Usually normality is in the majority and the difference is an 
“abnormal” singular case, that can easily be detected, isolated and 
excluded.

Radio Invasion
But what is happening, if the abnormal behavior is spreading out? What 
happens, when an invisible association of people invades in the inner 
city and behave different? What, if it infiltrates the dispersed 
repetition of normal gestures with slightly deviant ones – not only 
here, but here and there and everywhere? The artist group LIGNA invites 
you to find answers to these questions out in the streets – simply by 
using your radio!
No fortress wall can stop radio waves from dispersing everywhere. Radio 
listeners look like everybody else - but they are different: with their 
antenna they are connected to the invisible publicity of the ether. 
They are part of a constellation of listeners, which does not appear, 
until it shows effects: certain gestures, that are not normal, a 
behavior, that is slightly different from the rest – and which is 
spread by radio all over the city.

On Friday, August 12th LIGNA invites everybody to explore the strange 
space, that the radio waves open in the heart of Den Bosch. Participate 
in the LIGNA Radio Ballett! On the frequency of Radio Boschtion, 95,2 
(??) Mhz you can hear a radio broadcast, that suggests gestures and 
excercises, that question the rules of the public space of the city.

Don´t miss the uncanny radio invasion!
Become an alien in an alienated world!
Dissémination partout!

Start of the broadcast 17:00.
Gather at the entrance of Theater a/d Parade at 16:45. Pick up a radio 
and tune in!

Questions or comments? Write to: radioballett@gmx.net

Tjebbe van Tijen

Imaginary Museum Projects
dramatizing historical information
http://imaginarymuseum.org

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