Name: Walkie Talkier to the Waves (Radio Play) Act One: The Irish Sea Committee by Niamh Schmidtke
Duration: 8 min 25 s
Description: A radio play set in the near future about rising water levels in the Irish Sea

A radio play set in the near future about rising water levels in the Irish Sea

Walkie Talkier to the Waves (Radio Play) Act One: The Irish Sea Committee

An interview between an emerging 'pirate' collective and the Irish sea in the near future.

Wakie Talkie to the Waves: Act two: I used to be so much more than space

The diamond’s less sexy sister, somewhere between a radio essay and a voicenote, the 5 minute piece explores human relations to minerals, specifically with graphite. Combining scripted and organic conversation, prose and academic information, the audio slips in and out of speculation; is that a mineral speaking, or a person speaking about a mineral? A work-in-progress, made as part of their artist in residence program at TU Berlin, with the Science Gallery Network and fully funded by Fondation Didier et Martine Primat. The work was made from questioning the ways minerals could speak for themselves through technology, materiality and the act of holding hands.

Walkie Talkier to the Waves (Radio Play) Act One: The Irish Sea Committee

Niamh Schmidtke

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