AIR CONDITIONS 2022: A CORRESPONDANCE

Air Conditions 2022: a correspondance is a collaborative and cultural exchange between Bergen in Norway and Seydisfjordur in Iceland. It will take shape as a series of radio broadcasts between two community radio stations: Vers Libre (Bergen) and Seydisfjordur Community Radio 107.1 (Seydisfjordur). The broadcasts will take place from the 31st October to the 5th of November 2022.

Air Conditions will establish a live collaboration “on air” in both its meanings: on the expanded topic of air, but also taking place in the space of the radio, literally moving through air. Based at each radio station will be a small group of people with practices and interests that span contemporary art, sound, ecology, writing, music…

Air Conditions 2022: a correspondance seeks to use radio as a collaborative tool for linking far away communities and to build social and cultural connections. Collectively the two groups will be brought together through their broadcasts but also through the wide and often intangible subject of air.


Each day the two radio stations, Seydisfjordur Community Radio and Vers Libre will be making live radio programmes addressed to each other. When one station is broadcasting, the other will be listening while each broadcast will be a response to the previous. While the correspondence will be an intimate conversation between two small groups of individuals, it will be open to all to listen on FM or online.

The two radio stations will both be sending and receiving, speaking and listening in one long, shared conversation on air.






COLLABORATION
The Air Conditions correspondence will be a collaboration between two separate groups: one present in Bergen and one present in Seyðisfjörður. Each groups participants will input their own artistic expressions, voices and ideas to form collective resolutions that will be broadcast on the radio. Everyday, each group will broadcast one hour of radio together. It will have to be immediate and reactive: produced cooperatively every day within one group and in response to the actions of the other. Listeners can tune in to the evolving episodes as they develop, flex and grow.



BERGEN GROUP
FERGUS TIBBS - an artist, DJ and facilitator from Scotland who is based in Bergen. He makes collaborative projects that take many different forms but are connected through ideas about community, social structures, accessibility and uses of public space.

FREYA COURSEY - an ecologist, birder, DJ and wildlife photographer. She lives in Bergen where she regularly plays music to people, researches, climbs rocks and looks at cats.

PERNILLE MEIDELL - On a daily basis she works as a nurse and runs the label Breton Cassette. As well as making music under the moniker Perimeter O, she is half of the duo Dachs with Erik Mowinckel. perimetero.bandcamp.com - - - https://www.bretoncassette.com

LIIS RING - a (sound) artist, a wanderer, a thinker, a snoozer, a bird watcher and an idealist based between Tartu, Estonia and Göteborg, Sweden. liisring.bandcamp.com

VERS LIBRE - Vers Libre is a free-form community radio station based in Bergen and is committed to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive cultural environment on the west coast of Norway. It provides a platform for emerging Djs, artistsand musicians, broadcast their sounds through Vers Libre’s website. https://www.verslib.re


SEYDISFJORDUR GROUP
WILLIAM KUDAHL - an air enthusiast, artist & composer current living in Copenhagen.
williamkudahl.dk - - - soundcloud.com/williamkudahl

OCEANFLOOR GROUP - a collaboration between Aoife Coleman, Ellim Skovhøj, Lasse Høgenhof + + A sentient artistic ecology working within the fields of composition, installation, writing, radio, performance, film and collaborative image making http://oceanfloor.group/- - - soundcloud.com/oceanfloorgroup

SEYDISFJORDUR COMMUNITY RADIO 107.1 - Seyðisfjörður Community Radio is a shared digital and analogue broadcasting platform located in the village of Seyðisfjörður on the east-coast of Iceland - hosted, nurtured and initiated by an open-ended international community inhabiting various conditions and positions, often somewhat distributed in various locations on the planetary surface. seydisfjordurcommunityradio.net


PLATFORMS
SEYDISFJORDUR COMMUNITY RADIO 107.1 (Iceland)
www.seydisfjordurcommunityradio.net

VERS LIBRE, Bergen (Norway)
www.verslib.re

THE LAKE RADIO (Denmark)
www.thelakeradio.com


kindly supported and funded by:

NORDISK KULTURFOND - - - nordiskkulturfond.org

KULTURRÅDET - - - kulturradet.no

LYDGALLERIET - - - lydgalleriet.no

LUNGA SCHOOL - - - lungaschool.is