Future Nostalgia FM is a speculative radio piece that overlaps eras; from the distant past to the possible future. Through a variety of radio formats, the piece humorously and sagely raises questions about time cycles, fetishisation of the past and future, and decolonial concepts of time and progress. Its nostalgic-yet-futuristic content was created by multimedia artists Nađa Kračunović, Denise Lee, and sound artist David Bilek.

Future Nostalgia FM has been featured in the following programmes:

Radio Corax 95.9 FM Halle, Germany 2021

Kultursymposium Weimar Festival 2021: Generations.FM  Weimar, Germany 2021

Belgrade Youth Biennial 2021: Language in Common Belgrade, Serbia 2021

Der Leipziger Hörspielsommer Internationaler Hörspielwettbewerbe Leipzig, Germany 2022

Future Nostalgia FM

Moderation tracks and jingles from the curatorial radio project of Future Nostalgia FM written and recorded by David Bilek, Dean Ruddock, Denise Lee and Nadja Kracunovic. 
Full project: www.futurenostalgia.digital

Future Nostalgia FM Moderation

What makes the difference between a model minority and a threat? Why do we forget so easily the root causes for forced migration? Why do people leave their homes to find their place in other societies? Who has the power?

From the Pontics of the Black Sea to the Chinese diaspora, this collaborative, migrating sound piece wanders through the city, weaving together the micro and the macro, interspersing personal and familial narratives with historical and political context, connecting these histories by questioning current attitudes toward migration.

From here to there, or somewhere else (extract)

Voices of Loneliness and Belonging is a collaboration between Denise Lee, Fun, Sanaz, Tetiana Dubyniuk and Ying. As artwork developed with migrant artists and non-artists, the sound piece is the result of various processes of creative writing, mutual interviews, collages, and musical experiments exploring the themes of isolation and belonging in our lives. In addition to the interview material and original texts, the piece also includes a Ukrainian folk song and two short poems by Sandor Békési.

Klänge von Zugehörigkeit und Isolation

A performative reading about spiralling, the past, our present, time and its loops.

Sometimes moving forward feels like going backward is a two-hour performance that took place on 23.12.2024 in the foyer of the Gropius Bau, in the framework of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled 2024 (demo station no. 8) from his retrospective DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG, which invited artists and creators to intervene with the project’s wooden spiral structure. The full texts are available to read here: https://www.lizhuli.com/forward-backward

Texts by Denise Lee and Maria Paula Maldonado
Music by Denise Lee and @deanruddock

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