radio cleft of light one of the earliest concepts of the word ‘radio’ derives from light, something to be glimpsed and quantified – from the latin meaning “radius”, which stems from “radiare” (meaning to emit in the form of rays or to radiate). In streams of ether, light and sound burn lamps and send disembodied messages. A simulated radio echo, like faces made out in mountains or clouds. Speech moves within this territory previously-described as “a non-locatable and mysterious point in which listener and radio have become indistinguishable”. Like the shadow which is and is not its own object, the projection of a volume without a closed content reveals another nature, it exists precisely within this acoustic shadow, a topography in which an aleph of convergences installs itself, opening up the spectrum to a perception of this illuminated cleft of radio – between the murmuring voice and its reverberation, an echo of cicadas intoning the end of light and its evanescent heat… in the occultation of a mechanism for recording and reproduction transformed into a specter of light, obsolete valves or incandescent candles, a sound simulacrum in the vision of this narrative: sound establishes itself only when its waves are displaced by the wind - there, where listening is made possible… a solar echo, a radio mirage… Lilian Zaremba – installation Radio Cleft of light Caixa Economica Gallery, Rio text translation – Steve Berg
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:43:20 +0000
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