[spectre] HATE RADIO on view at HIS MASTER'S VOICE, HMKV, Dortmund/Germany, 23 March - 7 July 2013

[Inke Arns]

HIS MASTER’S VOICE
On Voice and Language
HMKV at the Dortmunder U
Dortmund/Germany

23 March – 7 July 2013


Dear Spectres,

after the grand exhibition opening on Friday we are again in full set-up mode: From tomorrow, Tuesday, 26 March 2013, the complete stage set of HATE RADIO will be on display in the exhibition HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language (on view until 28 April 2013).

The next live performance of HATE RADIO will take place on 7 May at Teatro Maria Matmos in Lisbon (Portugal), on 14 May at Theater Winterthur (Switzerland) and on 18 May at Halle Kalk in Cologne (Germany). See http://international-institute.de/?page_id=2918 for performance dates.

From 28 May 2013 the stage set will again be on view in the context of our exhibition (until the end of the exhibition on 7 July 2013).

All the best,
Inke Arns


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IIPM - International Institute of Political Murder
HATE RADIO
Stage design of the performance, 2011-2012

On view in the exhibition: 
26 March - 28 April 2013; 28 May - 7 July 2013

If someone were looking for simple and effective means to prevent the genocide in Rwanda, wrote the US-American journalist Philip Gourevitch, the radio station RTLM would have been a good place to start. With unspeakable cynicism, the staff of the popular station had been preparing the genocide like an election campaign for months. The program consisted of pop music, riveting sports coverage, political communiqués, and remarkably hateful calls to murder. The newest Congolese music and the most aggressive racial analyses were combined into a dreary few-square-meter laboratory of racist ideology. The project HATE RADIO returns RTLM to the airways in a reconstructed backdrop that remains faithful to the original – survivors of the genocide are standing on stage.

On 6 April 1994, the airplane of the Rwandan President, Habyaruman, was hit by two missiles as it tried to land. This event signaled the beginning of the most brutal genocide since the end of the Cold War. In the months of April, May and June 1994, the Central African state murdered an estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 of its Tutsi minority and thousands of moderate Hutus. The tools used to humiliate and kill people of all ages and genders were simple: machetes, sticks, and a few guns. Indeed, the most powerful instrument of the genocide was the “Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines” (RTLM). Central to the project is the re-enactment of an RTLM show, run by its hosts - three Hutu extremists and the white Italian-Belgian Georges Ruggiu. How racism functions, how human beings are “talked out of” their humanity - an instillation reconstructed from documents and witness statements provides the answers to these questions so that people can feel and experience these happenings for themselves.

The walls of the reconstructed radio studio will be used during the performances as projection screens for a video instillation with selected stories from former perpetrators and victims. These stories bring visitors face-to-face with the consequences of racist minds. Thus, not only does HATE RADIO demand they stay in the inner circle – the focal point of racist knowledge - but also turns visitors into suffering witnesses of its destructive and inextinguishable consequences. An extensive volume of material, and various events accompanying the exhibit, help to expand HATE RADIO into a broad, interdisciplinary intervention examining the current forms and manifestations of racist violence in Europe and Africa, as well as the ability to represent racist violence as a work of art.

The International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) was founded at the end of 2007 to strengthen exchange between theatre, the fine arts, film and research about re-enactment – the reproduction of historical events – as well as to reflect upon the theoretical aspects of this exchange. In its artistic re-enactments, the IIPM pays utmost attention to factual accuracy. Extensive archival research and interviews with witnesses and survivors provide the foundation upon which the institute develops its projects. In theatrical, cinematic, literary and artistic instillations, historically relevant events are made accessible to the audience in a playful and aesthetic way and are reflected upon during discussions about related topical issues.

Source: http://international-institute.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Press-Kit_Hate-Radio_11_08_02.pdf


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HIS MASTER’S VOICE
On Voice and Language
HMKV at the Dortmunder U
Dortmund/Germany

23 March – 7 July 2013

Artists
Christophe Bruno (FR), Erik Bünger (SE), William S. Burroughs & Anthony Balch (US), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (TR), YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (KR), Dortmunder Sprechchor (DE), Jakup Ferri (KOS), Jochen Gerz (DE), Richard Grayson (UK), Asta Gröting (DE), Daniel Hofer (DE), Anette Hoffmann / Andrea Bellu / Matei Bellu / Regina Sarreiter (DE), International Institute of Political Murder (CH), Ignas Krunglevicius (LT/NO), Bruce Nauman (US), Stefan Panhans (DE), Julius Popp (DE), Laure Prouvost (FR/UK), Kathrin Resetarits (AT), Peter Rose (US), Manuel Saiz (ES), Anri Sala (AL), Richard Serra mit Nancy Holt (US), Katarina Zdjelar (SR/NL), Artur Zmijewski (PL) und andere and others.

Curated by
Inke Arns

www.hmkv.de

Generously supported by Kunststiftung NRW

Main funders of HMKV: Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW

Supported by Königlich Norwegischen Botschaft, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Büro für Bildende Künste/Institut français in Zusammenarbeit mit dem französischen Ministerium für Kultur und Kommunikation/DGCA sowie Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Media partners: ARTE Creative, de:bug, Ruhrgestalten



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Dr. Inke Arns
Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at the Dortmunder U
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund 
Office: Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
T + 49 - 231 - 496642-0 (direct line -11)
F + 49 - 231 - 496642-29
M + 49 - 176 - 430 627 93
inke.arns at hmkv.de
www.hmkv.de

HMKV's exhibition Sounds Like Silence has been awarded the "Special 
Exhibition of the Year 2012" prize by the German section of AICA. 
Read more: http://aica.kuk.net/english/meld/index.php?id=186

HMKV receives Honorable Mention in the context of the ADKV-ART 
COLOGNE Prize for Kunstvereine 2013. 
Read more: http://www.kunstvereine.de/web/index.php?id=20

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