RADIO ANARTI

(Anarti: an anagram of Tirana. Ana as in anarchy and Arti as in art.) Radio in Albania was the main an only means of communication with the world: a world which didn’t exist because the radio was controlled by the regime. The only station that existed was Radio Tirana. Provando a ricevere bene il canale si entrava in contatto con altre frequenze, altre lingue, altri mondi. Mondi confusi, disturbati dal monopolio di Radio Tirana. L’atto di muovere la manopola era un gesto di ricerca… E allora passando da una stazione all’altra, da un mondo sonoro ad un altro potevo suonare la radio. While trying to find good reception, one enters into contact with other frequencies, other languages, other worlds. Worlds that confuse and disturb the monopoly of Radio Tirana. The act of moving the dial was an action of research, moving from one station to another, from one world of sound to another To discover the world to find an identity that in Albania was sedated. The Radio: reminding and reaching out to people through a means that records without recording, an archive of time, of the past… and consequently brings the past to the present. To remember through sonic incursions into an era (research into the archives compilations of the important sounds that tell of the implosion of the years of dictatorship). Trasformare quella che per me era Radio Tirana, in Radio Anarti: portarla dal suo essere monolitica, centrifuga, autocentrata, autarchica a una condizione centripeta in modo da mettere in relazione biunivoca e dialettica il dentro e il fuori (dalla radio alla città, dalla città alla radio). To transform what for me was Radio Tirana, into Radio Anarti: taking it from its monolithic, centrifugal, self-centered, autarkic being to a centripetal condition in order to connect bijective and dialectic inside and outside (from the radio to the city, from the city on the radio). But not only that: at the same time collect other realities in the same radio. In many different ways: “Envoys” move through different situations of Tirana, through multiple means. A mutual contact: the people and the realities involved can listen to the radio, but also record a message that, in turn, everyone will be able to listen. The envoys will physically leave the radio built by us, bound to (threads of different colors). When travelling from the radio (located in the place designated for the biennial) to the various locations (significant places in the city), these will create traces, representing the radio frequencies. At the source, we will see a physical radio, a large container that will embrace all the suggestions coming from Albanian reality and not. For example, there will be a connection to the Tomor mountain, a mystical place par excellence, where they talk of an ancient oracle: or radio communications with different independent spaces in Rome and Tirana where we will try to translate works of various artists into radio frequencies (“now we will transmit the artist’s picture …….”). Or again: a correspondent who, with a “radio-car”, will explore the city and transmit sounds, voices and situations that will inevitably be created along the way. Among other things, there will also be a link with the city’s Roma market, in which a station will be housed in its centre, where direct interactions between radio speakers and the public will take place, an absolute protagonist. Unico leitmotiv sonoro e fisico sarà la voce e il viso di Jonida Prifti che comparirà dalla radio posta alla biennale. Radio Anarti sarà un grande contenitore costruito come una radio degli anni 30-40. Il mezzo così com’è nato, attualizzato e liberato. Jonida è la voce che racconta, la speaker “ a vista”. Ritornerà e ricorrerà, a tempi cadenzati, come medium di sintesi vocale fra tutte le attività artistiche e non, fra tutte le suggestioni che cadranno dall’esterno. L’artista tradurrà in happening poetici le connessioni con il mondo: un mondo simbiotico. The only sound and physical leitmotif will be the voice and the face of Jonida Prifti who will appear on the radio at the biennial. Radio Anarti will be a large container built in the form of a 1930s/40s radio. The means as it was born, actualized and liberated. Jonida is the voice that tells, the speaker “in situ”. It will return and will recur, in rhythm, as a vocal medium a synthesis between all artistic and non-artistic activities, among all the suggestions that will come from outside. The artist will translate the connections with the world into poetic happenings: a symbiotic world.