Transistorsargverstärker:in (Transistor Coffin Amplifier)
Multimedia installation, audio interview, German version: 18 min., English version: 18:20 min., 2020
In the spring of 1980, Radio Freies Wendland broadcast anti-nuclear protests until the police evacuated the site. Today, its amplification unit sits in a display case in the German Museum of Technology. The installation offers a commentary on the now-silenced radio device, which is shown within walking distance of the exhibition venue. The venue itself was originally a bear pit, a home to Berlin’s heraldic animals for over eighty years, and in 2017 it was turned into a space for site-specific interventions.
While the visual level quotes the museum’s “glass coffin,” the soundtrack conveys the object’s biography from the perspective of a museum curator. A zine expands the object with further conversations about the transmitter and its musealization.
Multimedia installation, audio interview, German version: 18 min., English version: 18:20 min., 2020
In the spring of 1980, Radio Freies Wendland broadcast anti-nuclear protests until the police evacuated the site. Today, its amplification unit sits in a display case in the German Museum of Technology. The installation offers a commentary on the now-silenced radio device, which is shown within walking distance of the exhibition venue. The venue itself was originally a bear pit, a home to Berlin’s heraldic animals for over eighty years, and in 2017 it was turned into a space for site-specific interventions.
While the visual level quotes the museum’s “glass coffin,” the soundtrack conveys the object’s biography from the perspective of a museum curator. A zine expands the object with further conversations about the transmitter and its musealization.
Light object: illuminated slide laminated on acrylic 45 × 55.72 cm, colored fiberboard, powder-coated steel legs, 43 cm. Photographic concept and photo: Sandy Volz. Audio dialogue with Bernd Lüke (Technical Museum Berlin), in German, and with English dubbing. Zine Speak to me: monotone, 36 pages, 15.4 × 14.5 cm.
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