SWAMP RADIO – artistic intervention in Kemeri bog 
13/09/2018 – 15/09/2018
RIXC / Kemeri bog, Latvia

Sound installations by Ivo TAURINS, Krista DINTERE, Chelsea POLK, and the students from Liepaja University’s MPLab (Art Research Lab) and MIT Art, Culture and Technology program, in collaboration with Swamp Pavilion (swamp.lt), curated by Nomeda and Gediminas URBONAS in the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Project takes a challenge to give a voice to many those unheard, and invisible. In a time when our planet is threatened by climate change, real and hybrid wars, the swamps represent contemporary oasis. These vast wetlands with their ancient ecosystems are like time-capsules. Yet swamps are also key players for serving variety of ecological services for our modern society.

Swamps contain dormant resources and myriad other species, with whom we share life on this planet. Escaping from intensive agriculture, these wetlands contain enormous biodiversity. Swamps are inhabited by numerous of plant and animal species, and various communities of living micro-organisms.

Swamp Radio gets beyond our anthropocenic reality, and maintains connections between the humans and other species. By artistic interventions and transmitting interfaces, the Swamp Radio is turned into a social media megaphone for invisible and inaudible actors of nature. The artists are installing microbial fuel cells, environmental monitoring sensors and transmitting devices to transform the swamps into dynamic power plants and the 21st century multi-voiced broadcast media.

An important part of Swamp Radio project is Swamp Radio Program and Walks, curated by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, involving the students from Liepaja Univeristy MPLab and MIT ACT.

More on: http://festival2018.rixc.org/swamp-radio-1/