Radio Armed Response

Produced by Claudia Wegener (ZA 2007)

60 min

South Africa based artist Claudia Wegener from Radio Continental Drift walks the streets of two suburban communities in Johannesburg S.A. In door to door interviews, at times through intercom systems and across gates, she asks questions related to public safety and a privatised security system. The result is a radio artwork mixed from what the artist likes to call dramatic field recordings. In surprisingly intimate, often humorous conversations, narratives of a complex urban patchwork of communities unfold before your ‘very eyes’. Yet what unravels, far beyond ‘issues of security’, social and urban divisions are shared concerns, questions, stories and visions about living together.

Producer: Claudia Wegener

The original half hour audio piece from 2005 is reframed in recent footage for London’s art radio station Resonance104.4fm

Recommended by Paris based sound artist Dinahbird

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