Isabella Gerstner, Wolfgang Wirth, Marc de Maisonneuve, Klaus Bock and Mercedes Azpilicueta have all been artists in residence in Rotterdam in 2011. The experience of sharing time and working on projects together led to the idea of establishing a permanent structure for common work though all of them currently live in different places.
Kapsalon took part in the UND 7, a platform for art initiatives in Karlsruhe, Germany.
March 7th to 11th 2012.
F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O.
F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. is a Live Radio/Event space inspired, in part, by the renowned
Belfast independent record label, Good Vibrations. The project is a collaboration with the artist-run space Goleb, the UK community radio station Soundart Radio (102.5FM), and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s very own Radio Rietveld.
http://projectgoleb.wordpress.
http://www.soundartradio.org.
http://radio.rietveldacademie.
Art and music have long contributed to society and our way of life. But in these dire financial times where media has been swallowed by giant conglomerates, and culture has fallen under the scrutinizing eye of market capitalism; where is the unifying ‘space’ that announces its difference to the prescribed status quo?
Throughout the history of popular culture this collective space, appearing both physically and conceptually, has been a hub of creativity, exploring both new and old technologies and giving birth to new sounds and new vibrations.
In Belfast, caught between the conflicts of its time, it was a little known record shop and label called Good Vibrations. Famous for producing the first record that was ever played twice in a row on British airwaves, it was also a project that recognized the potential of music to be a unifying force.
A little over a year ago it appeared that the Internet, with its use of social media, could be the free space where this difference could be heard; the apparent spark that lit the fires of the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, which later reverberated to the cities of Cairo, London and New York.
With the recent censorship laws being proposed on the Internet, our question as a group has been: If we could freely express ourselves, what kind of vibrations would we want to send out there? And the workgroup’s answer has (so far) been: F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O.
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Throughout the week, different radio programs will take place with a variety of guests and a range of live musical acts.
The entire project will be broadcasted as a Live Feed through the Radio Rietveld website, and will also appear on the UK community radio station Soundart Radio (102.5FM)
Follow the week’s events on Facebook http://www.facebook.
The entire project will also be streamed live on
The streams will later be accessible through an archive on the website.
Tutors: Taf Hassam / Renée Ridgway
Coordination/Radio Hosting: Taf Hassam (UK), Kaja Wie Van Der Pas (NO), Maria Guggenbichler (DE)
Radio / Newspaper / Design:
Andre D Chapatte, Carina Erdmann, Charline Tuma, David Hermans, Gintare Kerbelyte, Julie Hénault, Lilia Luganskaia, Lotte Voets, Mads Wildgaard, Marius Jopen, Melissa Tun Tun, Mickael Marman, Mio Fujimaki, Noga Harel, Øjan Døsen, Pernilla Roos, Raoul Audouin, Sabo Day, Stefan Auberg, YURI AN, Vytautus Volbekas
House Band: Gerard Barry (IRE) + Charlie Stewart-Liberty (IRE)
Guests: Simon Ferdinando (KE), Natasha Ginwala (IN), Roel Griffioen (NL), Jakob Ehrlich (AT), Jessica Dill (US) + Radio Contributions from: Hiwa K and many More.
Special thanks to: Renée Ridgway, Gabriëlle Schleijpen, Alena Alexandrova, Jort van der Laan, Anna Hoetjes, Joris Lindhout, Lost Property http://lostproperty.
I chose to make a visual poem inside this office.
Literature, art history and daily life situations were my
working material to build a poly-narrator.
I found some sources I wanted to work with and some other
precarious materials as a card from a restaurant or
leftovers from a present.
Victor Grippo (AR) and Marcel Broodthaers (BE) -with part
of their works Analogy IV from 1972 and Fig.1 Programme
from the same year- combine in a speech chain making and
unmaking themselves in a particular topology where others
and their discourse- are included. Like poet Mariano Blatt
(AR) with his fanzine Sarpadit from 2007, and artist
Nicolás Sarmiento (AR) with whom we wrote together a text
based on simple and daily life questions that usually
appear in chain emails or spam. We tried to utter the text
using different manners of speaking through an online
conversation between Rotterdam and Buenos Aires.
