location: Maca’s burger bar, High Street, Christchurch
date: Saturday 21 March 2008, 8pm-9pm.
notes: this work comprises 8 discrete 5 minute field recordings collected between 2:45 and 5:05 on Wednesday 18th March 2009, while walking around the inner city gallery spaces of Christchurch, New Zealand. the recordings were then layered / arranged as a new conglomeration in a 5 minute narrowcast performance / event score for Mini FM transmitter and two small receivers, as part of the Marsupial Gallery project PRANK ETUDES WRONG PETCHERA KTCUTCHHA.
"radio cegeste reflects on questions of gallery spectatorship, the
temporal attention given to art in the era of the preset, and the
general notion of art as sound-byte entertainment, with a radio
station designed for marsupial gallery's peripatetic project series.
for this station, a series of field recordings of empty gallery spaces
in the city in question, christchurch, recorded in the days before the
event, will be layered in the five minute time span of the set and
combined with the live radio waves present in the space itself, which
is in the vague location of the original location of the first
manifestation of the high street project, christchurch's longest
running project space. in this way, radio cegeste hopes to overhear
some ghosts as she reflects on the changes in new zealand
project-space culture since the early 1990s"
PRANK ETUDES WRONG PETCHERA KTCUTCHHA.
Saturday 21 march 2008.
8pm - 9pm.
New Burger Bar. 178 High Street.
Free. & in Progressive ORder as 5 minute sets)
1 HEAVY TURKEY
2 MIRK
3 CRECHE
4 SATANIC TEA TOWEL
5 RADIO CEGESTE
6 I DON'T SPOOK EASY
7 TRAINING
8 RICHARD NEAVE