Dear all, this a quick letter from the breakfast table at Datscha Radio 17. Cloudy sky, sun rays coming through and an early phone call from the streaming tech master AB: There is still an issue with our nightloop stream not having been played last night. We sincerely apologize!!!! This minute our studio tech gulps down his coffee to check and fix this problem.
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… with some beautiful noisy stuff from Singing Kitchen aka Kasia Justka
… the garden does not like to stay outdoors…
Gabi Schaffner talks to Hans Kellett about the day to come. Matthew Burnett watches over the faders of the mixer, which he will not take his eyes off of for the whole day.
At noon…
… The Hidden Story Singers enter the studio to start the radio program with feminist power.
Three curators in intimate conversation
Such heavy charms cause the stream to give up which has to be revived several times on that very day.
The only cure is to take away the colour and picture the garden in black and white.
Dirk HülsTrunk talks to Shanti Suki about white noise, black blocks and gray word weed in the gaps between the lawn and outdoor tiles.
In our first Surprise Minuit the Datscha Crew gathers around the Datscha bonfire, an old gramophone that warms us up with culinary jazz classics.
For the upcoming four days we promise to pick up the plain and unspectacular sounds on the edges of perception. And we will fix the stream. Promise!
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Datscha Radio 17 is getting ready: Artist Hans Kellett has already taken a probe of the electric whispers of the potatos, and the printer is set up to receive and translate their secret conversations. Many many things have been transported to the Datscha, the studio is furnished and the flag is flying. There is a tent to shelter us from any rain and today’s surprise: We got an extra fridge!!!! We hear us tomorrow at 12!
They do have something to tell!
Kate and Hans setting up the plant communication devices for “Greenhouse Emissions”
Weather forecast is favorable.
AB knows how everything works. Many thanks to Studio Ansage!
The Tech Team rejoices…
The donated frigde! Thank you!!!!
The tent is set up and the cat likes it.
The garden has always been a mirror of social conditions and power structures. And as diversified a society might be as varied are its gardens. On this day, Hortus Politicus, we’ll examine the existing multiplicities, get to the bottom of them, shed some light, question them and allow them to be heard.
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And so it is said, on the morning of the Seventh Day the Garden of Eden was planted. Whether it really existed or not, we will never know. We still dream of paradise gardens. And in our own gardens we seek and find a slice of heaven and happiness. But for how much longer?
At the close of the Anthropocene, characterized by climate change and the sixth wave of extinction, this biotope of ours will not be spared. Indeed it is likely to fade away. Could the much-vaunted technological progress provide us with a remedy? Or will green life continue to exist in special areas where human access is denied? What will tomorrow’s gardens look like?
Join us for an acoustic day trip to biotopes in future perfect…
Verena Kuni (Curator/Editor)
Special for Morning Chorus: Miyuki Jokiranta
Concerts and Performances: Marta Zapparoli, Plants and Empire.
Artist of the Day: Marold Langer-Philippsen with “Archie Archive In The Garden”
The Datscha garden never looked as good as this before: The lawn edges aligned to central perspective (baroque!), the wintergarden orderly, the plots free from weeds with crumbly earth, the gutters functional again… and the rose rejoices and looks up at the clear evening sky.
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