Day ten of ...all silent but for the broadcast... 

In conversation with Newton-Whitelaw, Sculpture, Royal College of Art and Anna Clifford, Curating, Royal College of Art


Sunday 29 June 2014

« ECHO » is an online radio exploring the spatial qualities of sound, live acts of communication and ideas of broadcast, here at « ECHO » we work with artists, artworks and interesting people.

We are thrilled to commence our new series of programmes focusing on a different artist each show and taking their practice as a starting point. This programme is made with the «ECHO» team; Anna Clifford, Dunya Kalantery, Katherine Finnerty and Angelica Sule, in collaboration with artist Blaithin Mac Donnell and hosted by ktokradio.com

For each upcoming show, we will talk with an artist to draw connections and influences from their practice to put together a collage of interviews, narrative work, documentaries and sound pieces The programme will start with a conversation with the artist and move into different connections and strands of thought, strung together through a programme of artworks and intermittent dialogue in order to explore different forms of broadcast, contemporary sound and performance art, all from the perspective of one artists’ practice and conversation. 

We also want to focus on the Kilburn and Kensal Rise area over the course of the series and with Bláithin we did that by taking a walk together. From holey bread and floating arches, to Irish pubs and pops of colour, we not only stumbled across K2K but we even ended up right where we started by complete chance!

This show features Bláithin’s performance based on this circuitous full-circle walk punctuating throughout, while we discuss looping, storytelling, Bláithin’s work, and what it means to perform. We will also feature an earlier work of Bláithin’s; 'something, in parts' featured in « ECHO »’s exhibition at the Function Room, a performance; 'She Couldn’t Imagine What It Looked Like' by the artist Patrick Coyle from the Curating Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Royal College of Art last year, a recorded response to Bláithin’s work by our phantom DJ Dunya Kalantery, and a reading by the artist Keef Winter of an extract of Ali Smith’s 'How to be Both'.  



«ECHO» featuring Bláithin Mac Donnell

« ECHO » is a nomadic, online radio station that explores the spatial qualities of sound, live acts of communication and ideas of broadcast via artists’ works, and artists talking. We broadcast from different radio stations and events, and you can listen to all of our programmes on demand here: at our online station.

We are also home to the online archive of the … all silent but for the broadcast … radio, which broadcast live during the RCA Graduation Show 2014, following the Curating Contemporary Art MA exhibition … all silent but for the buzzing … (18-26 June 2014). This is where we started.

Curated by Anna Clifford, Katherine Finerty, Dunya Kalantery and Angelica Sule, « ECHO » works with artists, artworks and interesting people.

If you would like to take part in « ECHO », or if you wish to programme us on radio or for an event, please contact us at: info@radioecho.co.uk