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<b>A Winter of Protests<br>
Nicolas Montgermont 2020<br>
</b>Radio creation. 28 minutes<br>
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Listen on the radia website:<br>
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href="http://radia.fm/2020/08/show-804-a-winter-of-protests-by-nicolas-montgermont-%e2%88%8fnode/">http://radia.fm/2020/08/show-804-a-winter-of-protests-by-nicolas-montgermont-%e2%88%8fnode/</a><br>
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Last winter, France experienced the longest strike in its modern
history. Launched in opposition to a pension reform project, the
strikers’ demands very quickly joined the sectors already struggling
in a deleterious socio-economic context: health, justice,
university, transport, energy, arts, education and media converged
in the streets with the "gilets jaunes" aka yellow vests that had
been demonstrating and occupying roundabouts for more than a year.
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Many alliances were formed: lawyers took up the song of the yellow
vests, strikers from Radio France investigated a strike by cleaning
women, queer collectives defended a striking bus driver fired for
homophobic insult, even artists joined the procession, that preceded
the unions in the streets and formed the majority of the
demonstrations. This social movement is a multitude that agrees on
one thing: to get rid of Macron and his world. <br>
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Only the containment due to the coronavirus will put an end to this
political sequence, and the reform will finally be suspended.<br>
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This episode of Radia is a subjective attempt to put this moment in
sound. Recordings made during demonstrations, sound creation and
political reflections are mixed to illustrate the bubbling political
atmosphere and sonic environment of this period.<br>
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Interventions: <br>
. Judith Butler : « On Demonstrating Precarity » – 2015 <br>
. Michel Foucault : « Interview at the Université Catholique of
Louvain » – 1981 <br>
. Michel Foucault : « Debate with Noam Chomsky on Human Nature » –
1971 <br>
. Hakim Bey : « Waiting for Revolution » in T.A.Z – 1991, read by
Stephanie Boubli & DinahBird<br>
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Thanks to : Léa Roger, Méryll Ampe, BSP Barbès, Miliani, Sarah,
Lola.<br>
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Nicolas Montgermont is a sound and radio artist who explores the
physicality of waves in its different forms. For more than 15 years,
he has been designing artistic devices that explore the poetic
essence of waves: reality in a volume, vibration of materials,
richness of invisible radio landscapes, musicality of interferences,
antenna sculpture, listening and broadcasting territory… and is
currently developing a work on the links between radio-art and
politics. <br>
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He makes sound performances, installations, records and
compositions, alone or in collaboration (chdh, Art of Failure,
Cécile Beau, RYBN, Pali Meursault…) and participates in several
sound and radio creation collectives (∏node, Yi King Operators, les
Sons Fédérés, Jef Klak, l’Acentrale). His projects have been shown
in many art centers, museums, concert halls and self-managed venues
in Europe and elsewhere. He teaches sound and multimedia creation at
the ENS Louis Lumière and at Paris 8.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nimon.org">https://nimon.org</a>
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