Dispatch is a podcast created exclusively for the museum’s website. An audio bulletin of knowledge which brings together excerpts from books, essays, aphorisms, poems, press releases, soundtracks, and stories in a diachronic dimension.
(Editions) Mego 1995–2020
The Austrian record label Editions Mego has a retrospective inside the listening room of CHAMBER MUSIC. The sonic universe of the entire production catalogue, covering twenty-five years of musical research guided by Peter Rehberg, one of the most influential figures of the experimental electronic music scene.
In this episode:
1. Randy Kennedy, Language as Sculpture, Words as Clay on “New York Times”
2. Leonard Cohen, First of all, from The Book of Longing
3. Brown Thornbill, Ambleside, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
4. Etel Adnan, taken from The cost for love we are not willing to pay
5. John Cage, In love with another sound
6. Press Release Lo Savio, la Galleria D’arte Selecta, Rome, 1960
This podcast was made during Pauline Julier’s residency at the Swiss Institute of Rome, in occasion of the evening Event Horizon — Là où commence le ciel conceived with Filipa Ramos (September 2002).
Sources are, by order of appearance:
1. Anne Carson, Lecture on the History of Skywritings, © The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, 2019
2. Forensic Architecture, Cloud Studies, 2020
3. Quinn Latimer, Dear Drone, Letter in response to Pauline’s video, 2020
4. Vinciane Despret in conversation with Filipa Ramos, 2020
5. Michelangelo Antonioni, Au-delà des nuages in Rien que des mensonges, 1991
6. Helmut Völter, The Movement of Clouds Around Mount Fuji, Photographed and Filmed by
Masanao Abe, 2016
Produced by the Swiss Institute of Rome, in collaboration with MACRO, Rome.
In this episode:
1. Celso Amorim, A Post-Pandemic World Order, on “Progressive International”
2. Fernando Pessoa, Autopsicografia, from Una sola moltitudine
3. Spotless Starling, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
4. Emanuele Coccia, extract from Astrologia del Futuro, “Flash Art”
5. 99chants, chant#1: DAVID AUGUST — DCXXXIX A.C.
6. Press release of the exhibition Under the Sun, by Lawrence Weiner, in 2009 at Espai d’Art Contemporani Castelló
In this episode:
1. Jörg Heiser, “Artists in Quarantine”, public intellectuals, and the trouble with empty heroics
2. Eurasian Wren, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
3. Giorgio Caproni, Sassate
4. Press release of the exhibition Soul of a nation: art in the age of black power, 2017, Tate
5. Amiri Baraka, Who Will Survive America?, 2012
In this episode:
1. Slavoj Žižek, What I like about coronavirus, on “Spectator Usa”
2. Yellow-Fronted Parrot, Wondo Genet Forestry College, Southern Nations, Ethiopia
3. Patrizia Vicinelli, February 1962
4. Wolfgang Tillmans, On My Own, 2018
5. Press release of the exhibition Visual and Non-Visual Art Expression in 1940 at The Museum of Modern Art
6. Arundhati Roy, Il nostro compito è fermare il motore, from “Comune Info”.
In this episode:
1. Bruno Latour, Immaginare gesti-barriera contro il ritorno alla produzione pre-crisi, from “Antinomie Scritture e Immagini”
2. Laughing Falcon, Sendero Ojo de Agua, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
3. James Lee Byars, Text of The Hundred One Page Stone Books
4. Arvo Part, Salve Regina, 2006
5. Press release announcing the Robert Morris exhibition at the Tate Gallery, scheduled 28 April — 6 June 1971
In this episode:
1. Filipa Ramos, What the virus wants, from “The Contemporary Journal”
2. Northen Cardinal, Merritt Island, Florida, USA
4. Bernadette Mayer, Fish & Chips, from Poetry Foundation
5. Giacinto Scelsi, “Chukrum”
3. Press Release of the exhibition The Clock, Christian Marclay
In this episode:
1. Giorgio Agamben, Distanziamento sociale, from Una Voce on Quodlibet.it
2. Chipping Sparrow, Washington, Maryland, USA
3. Open Letter II, by Storm de Hirsch, from Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm de Hirsch
4. Sabbie Vergini, Albergo Intergallatico Spaziale
5. Press Release of the seminal exhibition Information, which took place at the MoMA in 1970
In this episode:
1. Timothy Morton, Thank Virus for Symbiosis, from The Corona Essays
2. Melodious Blackbird, San Josè, Costa Rica
3. Patrizia Cavalli, from Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo
4. Aphex Twin, Tha2 (world scam mix)
5. Paul Preciado, The loser conspiracy, from “Artforum”
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