Kunstradio Live from Linz

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Kunstradio Live from Linz September 8th - 11pm CEST - 9pm GMT

CELL STORIES
by Ashwell Adriaan on air: Oesterreich 1 and Radio Austria International (Shortwave)
on line: http://kunstradio.at 

"Cell Stories" by Ashwell Adriaan is a live radio work from the archive,
the artist produced for the Robben Island Museum in the former A section of
the Robben Island maximum security prison. 
The South-African artist Ashwell Adriaan and the Johannesburg based artist,
writer and curator Thomas Mulcaire will be live in the Studio in Linz. 
"Cell Stories" takes the form of songs and spoken narratives by 120
political prisoners who were imprisoned on Robben Island maximum security
prison between 1963 or 1991. The archive represents an attempt to map out
the divergent and increasingly radicalised ideological positions within
what is often taken to be a homogenous narrative of resistance. The
dominant history of the island is thus expounded in often mythologised
variations on the theme of a unified resistance to apartheid amongst the
political prisoners on the island, often centred around African National
Congress Youth League leaders who were imprisoned after the Revonia
treason  trial in 1964 (Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Nelson
Mandela,  Goldberg, Motswaledi...).

In the framework of RADIOTOPIA - on air: http://kunstradio.at/RADIOTOPIA 
Tuesday September 10th: RADIOTOPIA - The Long Night of Radioart
Ars Electronica Festival 2002/Oe1 Kunstradio