MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre (Kaapelitehdas) and broadcasted on lumbung Radio platform

Organised as a Forum, guests and participants will gather to discuss the current crises we are facing in our society as; the rise of the far right in Europe, climate urgency, extractivism, extended precarity and social welfare cuts, to mention a few. Broadcasting while sharing together, the forum will tackle how this current climate of ecological and political crisis are intertwined with our lives.

Forum Program

This event is fully free and gathers panel discussions, a DIY radio workshop, music, and sound art, through a hybrid format; at MUU Art Center and lumbung Radio platform.

Saturday 02. September
14:00 – 15:00: lumbung Radio
Live radio session
15:00 – 17:00: The state we are in – Facing the current political turn as cultural workers

Panel discussions
17:30 – 19:30: lumbung Radio
lumbung Radio members’ interviews and music sets
19:30 – 20:30: 12 Months of Pride
DJ-set by 12 Months of Pride

Sunday 03. September
13:30 – 15:30: Jingles for Radio: Hands-on radio and audio Open-Source tools! *
Radio collective as a radical form of organisation.
Workshop by Station of Commons
16:00 – 17:30: The Commons; a sustainable model for community radios?
Reset! Workshop: Roundtable discussion
17:30 – 19:00: Forum-closing music set

The program is accessible at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre (Cable Factory) and broadcasted live through lumbung Radio platform.

A collaboration between Pixelache Helsinki and lumbung Radio (Station of Commons). Initiated in 2020, Station of Commons is a research platform on digital commoning
practices. SoC, Station of Commons, in short, stands for the reappropriation of technology within the public space, how an art collective can develop their practices and still find distance from Facebook, Instagram, Youtube… SoC operates an Open Source audio stream, develops and builds Open Source infrastructure, and elaborates discourses on practical and theoretical issues related to radical technology. SoC is always excited to work with all forms of collectives, from grass root DJdj groups to art institutions at the international level.

lumbung Radio is an inter-local online community radio originating from Documenta Fifteen. It is an open online broadcast that comprises an inter-local network of distinct
radios and audio practices. It operates in no specific time zones and streams multiple languages, music, and art. Each participating radio station depends on its own means of production, way of thinking, learning, and sharing. lumbung Radio operates as a decentralized network of nodes that uses the internet without its hegemonic agency.
The intention is producing an audiophonic common space built on the multiplication of the existing practices of its contributors.