ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #1 - 31.10.2022

The first Radio Séance was a role-play experiment in which we want to explore re-telling histories through embodiment and oral storytelling to see in what way this can build relationships between today and the past.

We were coming together on All Hallows’ Eve, a day that is dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the departed, to call to spirits of the past, to echo their stories. In this seance we called persons called woman who were convicted as witches in the past, to hear their story. In the past and up to the present day, witches are not only figures who practice magic, in fact, many of the persons convicted as witches in the past would not consider themselves as such, nor practice what was widely understood as magic. The rise of capitalism goes hand in hand with expropriation of entitlement to own land and banishment to the domestic sphere and unpaid domestic and reproduction labour. This required the dispossession and oppression of many bodies, especially bodies called women. Witches were bodies of resistance, and bodies that have been extinguished, but their stories remain

What if we take the immaterial form of these stories back into our bodies?

Like the witches we too, experience the violence on a body called women,  in capitalism and patriarchy. How can the re-telling of the stories of our predecessors help us to find relationships between their experiences and struggles and ours? How can we reclaim the figure of witch and it's powerful magic without romanticising the historical conditions under which they were created.

How can role-play and the embodiment of a character help to relate the subjective perception and experience of oneself to the common agreed upon facts and reality.

This session was accompanied by live-sound design by Simon Labbe. Unfortunately, the recordings came out distorted. However, Renata Miron produced an incredible piece of text inside and through the role-play. Listen to a recording of her reading of it here.

ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #2 , 28.11.22 With Mingus Janssen.

The crow is a bird of the family Corvidae (A big cosmopolitan family currently including 133 species). It is home worldwide except in the southern tip of South America and the polar ice caps.

Mingus Janssen is a researcher, designer and writer concerned with the voices, perspectives and views of more-than-human entities. Next to his publishing house Mycelium Media, Mingus likes to take on the role of people's research or artistic subject and interview them from this perspective. 

In this episode you’ll first hear Mingus Janssen interviewing me from the perspective of a spider. 

Afterwards you’ll hear an interview with Mingus Janssen reflecting on his method. Disclaimer: The interview with Mingus Janssen was done months after the spider-interview. In the second interview he might refer to himself as a crow instead of a spider because of preceding events.

Listen back to the episode here

ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #3, 20.02.23 With Jana Romanova

Jana Romanova is a frequent collaborator. For this session we designed a LARP to be played in a radio show. You will first hear a recording of the live action role play and radio show Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want. Afterwards I will reflect with Jana on her LARP history and practice. 

Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want is a game about dreaming and fighting for your biggest wish to become true. Players, known as 'listeners,’ hail from a single neighbourhood, each harbouring different dreams they wish to realise.  They all tune in to the same radio show, a unique program where listeners can call in and engage in various game

The stakes are high – for the winner, the two moderators, Chilli and Cayenne, will foot the bill to turn their biggest dream into reality.

Listen back to it here.

ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #4, 29.05.23 With Simon Labbe

This Radio Séance I am conjuring up spirits with Simon Labbé. Simon does compositions with sound and objects and he uses role play in the process of his work. We will in particular summon up parts of his  long term project, the opera 'En la Maison Dédalus’.

Listen back to it here.

ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #1 - 31.10.2022

The first Radio Séance was a role-play experiment in which we want to explore re-telling histories through embodiment and oral storytelling to see in what way this can build relationships between today and the past.

We were coming together on All Hallows’ Eve, a day that is dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the departed, to call to spirits of the past, to echo their stories. In this seance we called persons called woman who were convicted as witches in the past, to hear their story. In the past and up to the present day, witches are not only figures who practice magic, in fact, many of the persons convicted as witches in the past would not consider themselves as such, nor practice what was widely understood as magic. The rise of capitalism goes hand in hand with expropriation of entitlement to own land and banishment to the domestic sphere and unpaid domestic and reproduction labour. This required the dispossession and oppression of many bodies, especially bodies called women. Witches were bodies of resistance, and bodies that have been extinguished, but their stories remain

What if we take the immaterial form of these stories back into our bodies?

Like the witches we too, experience the violence on a body called women,  in capitalism and patriarchy. How can the re-telling of the stories of our predecessors help us to find relationships between their experiences and struggles and ours? How can we reclaim the figure of witch and it's powerful magic without romanticising the historical conditions under which they were created.

How can role-play and the embodiment of a character help to relate the subjective perception and experience of oneself to the common agreed upon facts and reality.

This session was accompanied by live-sound design by Simon Labbe. Unfortunately, the recordings came out distorted. However, Renata Miron produced an incredible piece of text inside and through the role-play. Listen to a recording of her reading of it here.

ᖇᗩᗪIO ᔕéᗩᑎᑕE  #2 , 28.11.22 With Mingus Janssen.

The crow is a bird of the family Corvidae (A big cosmopolitan family currently including 133 species). It is home worldwide except in the southern tip of South America and the polar ice caps.

Mingus Janssen is a researcher, designer and writer concerned with the voices, perspectives and views of more-than-human entities. Next to his publishing house Mycelium Media, Mingus likes to take on the role of people's research or artistic subject and interview them from this perspective. 

In this episode you’ll first hear Mingus Janssen interviewing me from the perspective of a spider. 

Afterwards you’ll hear an interview with Mingus Janssen reflecting on his method. Disclaimer: The interview with Mingus Janssen was done months after the spider-interview. In the second interview he might refer to himself as a crow instead of a spider because of preceding events.

Listen back to the episode here