Friday, 23 May, 7 pm
Anabelle Lacroix will present Radio Insomnia to explore ideas of desynchrony—a method for falling out of a dominant rhythm – such as the routinised schedule associated with a busy day and its opposite, night-time for passivity, darkness and privacy; or the temporal norms associated with curating in visual arts institutions. Radio Insomnia is an ephemeral radio with live public broadcasts staged in galleries and social spaces that emphasises night-time listening, time dilation and intimacy. Radio Insomnia is a collaboration with artist Nicolas Montgermont.
Following a short presentation and listening session, Anabelle will be in conversation with Marietta Kesting to discuss the politics of deliberate wakefulness and (in)voluntary insomnia with a focus on live arts curation.
Anabelle Lacroix is a curator based in Eora/Sydney and Paris. Working with exhibitions, public programming, and radio, they are interested in the intersecting fields of curating and writing, involving performance,sound, speech, and publishing. Recently completing a PhD titled A Curatorial Ear: Rhythming the museum with public programming, their research focuses on the curation of live arts after-hours,proposing sonic curatorial methods to shape who has a voice in the art institution and resist the drive for spectacle and consensus in the gallery. They have worked across institutions and independent organisations such as the Centre Pompidou and Liquid Architecture, and are a current sessional academic at the University of New South Wales.
Marietta Kesting is the project leader of “Don’t wake up!” Future Dreaming in the Arts at the Intersection of Aesthetics, Decolonization and Technology, MUK, Vienna.
Image: Radio Insomnia: Roundtable discussion on night-time radio with Chantal Dumas, Philippe Battikha, and Martín Rodríguez, hosted by Nicolas Montgermont and Anabelle Lacroix, 9 July 2023, Agora at theUniversité du Québec à Montréal.