Andrea Langlois et al - Islands of Resistance - Pirate Radio in Canada

can improvise sense. It can give you access to transmissions by which
you can enact your own casting of what it means to radiate. Touch that
dial until it touches you back.
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Touch That Dial • 165
This text 1 was the curatorial statement for an event curated by Christof
Migone and Jean-François Renaud. This event comprised an exhibition,
a workshop, a performance evening and a panel discussion. It
took place August 8 to September 12, 1990, at the SAW Gallery, Ottawa,
Ontario.
The exhibition included the installations Sputniks by Nicolas Collins,
L’espace voulu by Marguerite Dehler, There’s a Mirror/Ear at the
End of My Bed by Nell Tenhaaf and Kim Sawchuk, and a video tape by
Mbanna Kantako (born Dewayne Readus) entitled One Watt of Truth
on the activities of his 1-watt pirate station WTRA in East Springfield,
Illinois, and the ensuing struggles with the FCC.
In addition, the following works were available for listening by the
gallery visitors: Jacki Apple and Keith Antar Mason, Frenzy in the
Night; L’ACRIQ inc., J’aurais pu l’écraser; blackhumor, no lust for the
wicked; D. Morris, Flag Air Base; Andrew Herman and P. Cheevers,
The Skull Bubble; and Hildegard Westerkamp, Kits Beach Soundwalk.
On the evening of August 10, 1990 there were the following performances:
John Oswald, Plunderphonology: A Polystomatic Dissertation;
Gregory Whitehead, Terror Glottis; and Bruire (Michel F. Côté, Robert
M. Lepage, Martin Tétreault), Muss Muss Hic!
Dan Lander conducted a workshop over three nights entitled The
Referential in Sound.
The symposium, Radio as Art: Issues of Creation, Issues of Regulation,
was conducted by Paul Cheevers, Chantal Dumas, Andrew Herman,
David Moulden, John Oswald, Patrick Ready, Kim Sawchuk,
Claude Schryer, Philip Szporer, Dot Tuer and Gregory Whitehead.
Moderated by Jody Berland.
notes
1. Acknowledgments: Raoul Vaneigem in The Revolution of Everyday Life for
the three projects; Sharon Gannon in “The Culture of Sleep” for the breaths;
Siegried Giedion in “Mechanization Takes Command” for the dark fragments;
Genie Shinkle for the mapping; Dan Lander for the edits.