radio play

sound installation/ podcast: 32mins

themes: Japanese concept of ‘Ma’: signifying emptiness-presence, interval, pause, rest, a space

in-between, in-relation, and

space-time.

Description

radio play

is a sound installation in various versions and a podcast. radio play is in part a play on a radio play. It takes the form of an auto-ethnographic audio presentation, crucially experienced in a darkened space.

Blurring distinctions between practice and theory, radio play has resonances with performative lectures of John Cage;

as well as with film essays of Chris Marker, who, alongside other cine-roman directors - such as Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Agnes Varda - made 'films to read'.

It also has resonance with Derek Jarman's Blue.

Formally and thematically the work engages with the Japanese concept of Ma - signifying emptiness-presence, interval, pause, rest, a space in-between, in-relation, and space-time.

radio play is an immersive work that elicits a particular spectatorship, facilitating possibilities of spectators as co-creators; engaging with a notion of artist as medium rather than auteur. radio play calls into question established notions of race and cultural diversity. It could be termed a work of sound art, of live art, and of new writing.

Conception, Script, Narration and Direction:

raphael adjani a.k.a. ajaykumar

Sound Engineering:

Gareth Jenkinson

2007-present

Presentation:

Australia, Online/Global, United Kingdom