Short Radio Night

Don't try to talk of snow on hot summer days; don't talk of night in broad daylight.


Short Radio Night has originally been planned as the nocturnal project presentation block of the seminar “Night – A cultural analysis” at the Department for Cultural Anthropology of the University of Graz. A similar night presentation block has been held early the same year at University of Vienna with the methodology course “Urban Nightscapes”. Both courses deal with working day nights.

Course language is English, since Graz University encourages to receive exchange students. Actually this course in multilingual and reflects a linguistically mobile and lifeworld-oriented academic environment. Therefore, broadcasting languages are German and English, with occasional French and Finnish readings. Presenting seminar projects not just to a teacher or to peers, but to an invisible radio audience will enhance the relevance of the students' work and hone their communication skills.

The place, esc medien kunst labor in the very town centre, contributes to openness during a peripheral daytime. The Short Radio Night is the last event it its programme “iterationen”. http://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/iterationen


Participants:
(in alphabetical order)

Eggel Ruth (assistant)
Silvia "Phoenix" Gangl (radio-activist)
Hoffmann Alexandra  (student)
Hofmüller Reni (host)
Moke Klengel (radio-activist)
Mautner Hannah (student)
Mecollari Paola (student)
Menhard Johanna (student)
Polzer Birgit (student)
Schmidsberger Isabella (student)
Sparling Amy (student)
Stefan Karina (student)
Winkler Justin (teacher)

Additional people are involved in pre-productions, but not present during the night.

Topics and Schedule:
The times mentioned are approximate.

20:54    sunset

22:00  Silvia "Phoenix": Arbeitslosenstammtisch zu Arbeitslosigkeit und Wohnungslosigkeit und Nacht sowie zu Nachtarbeit und Nachtschicht.

23:10    Short Radio Night starts

23:27    Moke Klengel intervenes

00:01    Introduction. Night between social reality and aesthetic exoticism: Justin

00:18  Transiting into dawn. Lefebvre's window at Gärtnergasse: Birgit and Hannah

00:35    The Vienna and Graz students' night surveys: Amy and Justin

01:10    Welcome loneliness. Deep night student workers: Isabella

01:27    Night train addiction: Alexandra

01:44    Moke Klengel intervenes

02:03    Night on the Schlossberg: Paola

02:35    A geography of fear: Karina

02:52    Moke Klengel intervenes

03:09    Segmented sleep, a self-experiment: Johanna

04:34    Transiting into dawn: Birgit and Hannah

04:51    Finissage and sunrise

Presentations are partly delivered as dialogues between course participants. Depending on the progress of single project, interview partners are invited to join us on air. Passers-by or colleagues are welcomed to join the seminar community in the premises of esc.