radio play - sound art 

radio play - online evaluation 

radio play is in part a play on a radio play. It takes the form of a sound installation, an auto-ethnographic audio presentation, and is crucially experienced in a darkened space.  If you are participating with this exhibit online, please close your eyes whilst listening.

Blurring distinctions between practice and theory, radio play has resonances with performative lectures of John Cage, with Derek Jarman's Blue, as well as with film essays of Chris Marker, who, alongside other cine-roman directors - such as Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Agnes Varda - made 'films to read'.

Formally and thematically the work engages with the Japanese concept of Ma - signifying emptiness-presence, interval, pause, rest, a s pace in-between, in-relation, and space-time. radio play is an immersive work that elicits a particular spectatorship, facilitating possibilities of spectators as co-creators; engaging with a notion of artist as medium rather than auteur. radio play calls into question established notions of race and cultural diversity. It could be termed a work of sound art, of live art, and of new writing.

Most importantly, radio play exists in diverse formats. It is also to be experienced and evaluated in an online format simultaneous to the real time exhibition (for further information on this evaluation process).  This is available above.  As this is experimental territory for Beta_space and the Powerhouse Museum, the data gathered during the online evaluation will feed the feasability of online narratives as a staple for information dissemination for the museum on a larger scale.

  Available in the online format until 14 October 2007.