Transpositioning on AIR

 

We cordially invite you to the inauguration of a new wave at SAVVY Contemporary – SAVVYZΛΛR  –with a four-day-programme for your ears, heart-reasonings, and senses. SAVVY Contemporary shifts to the air with a multiplicity of vocalizations, inviting you to its radio pillar: SAVVYZΛΛR. An independent radio that carries on the fundamental codes and values, contributing to the space’s ten year long dedication to be and stay connected. A necessity of carrying on, of being, living and continuing to speak.

Vociferating. Celebrating. Incanting in quiet. Again. Vociferating. Celebrating. Incanting in quiet. Again.

SAVVYZΛΛR continues to navigate hybridity – foundational to SAVVY Contemporary as a space of being – now through the dimensions of radio. It is a space negotiating and delinking from the ideologies, practices and continuities of the collective and entangled repercussions of the “colonial enterprise”. An invitation into where the body meets the voice, as they find their places in the airwaves. In motion, it shapes a zone of the in-between, complexifying the oppositions of the feminine and masculine. Sensing the physical in the virtual. Visiting the public in the intimate and otherwise. We mark and re-mark questions, underlining them, to agree in unconformity, finding ourselves in the in-between, “[where] new cultural identities are formed, reformed, and constantly in a state of becoming", as Homi K. Bhabha exclaims. In the time of the 2020 global crisis of containment, the airwaves reach out to rebel. To morph in geography. To come together within the history of radio-making. To speak. Acknowledging the polyphony of symphony, we dive into the air: opening up to break through visible and audible borders, binaries, and inhibiting mechanisms of lockout and repression. 

In a call-and-response to the ether, to gather in and out, interacting and reacting in a loop – creating feedback, musings, and utterances, receiving and re-birthing in the manifestations of programs to come. The multi-format programs are hosted by artists, curators, activists, and SAVVY team members. Through storytelling, ancestry, and narration, they queer the functions of radio transmission.

Vociferating. Celebrating. Incanting in quiet. Again. Vociferating. Celebrating. Incanting in quiet. Again.