radio pedio

sonic sculpture / open radio studio / public program 

Fast Forward Festival, Athens 2018

Radio Pedio is a contribution to the project Park Fables by Chto Delat & Anton Kats

Using raw materials, traces of history and memory, fragments of identities and experiences, the collective Chto Delat (Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Nikolay Oleynikov, Dmitry Vilensky) and the artist and musician Anton Kats conceived a space of listening and a series of interventions in Athens’ central park Pedion tou Areos. Through a theatrical performance, a field radio station, visual and sonic interventions, the project proposed a semi-fictional field of practice concerned with both the pragmatics and the mysteries of one of the most polysemic public spaces in Athens.

The project included ephemeral artistic, recreational and educational interventions that engaged with the park’s cultural heritage and its contemporary political presence. Theatrical performances, a radio station and a listening room formed the core of the work, flanked by temporary installations and parallel events. The interventions invited the audience to think, discuss and negotiate the complexities of contemporary socio-political life. Radio Pedio proposed a focal point of reference and a meeting point during the project. A specially designed radio pavilion, amplified by the listening room in the centre of the park, hosted debates and presentations questioning different ways of managing and using public spaces specifically designed for recreation.

Commissioned and produced by: Onassis Cultural Center/ Fast Forward Festival 5, Curator: Katia Arfara

Enormous gratitude for the emergence and the manifestation of the project for Dernikou Dimitra, Mado Giannikou, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Athina Stamatopoulou, Maria Petinaki

Further links:

Chto Delat
FFF5 | Chto Delat & Anton Kats
5th Fast Forward Festival

Documentation Images:

Georges Salameh
Anton Kats