Works: Lilia Mestre

Sense Radio

In September 2009 Lilia started a research project where she wanted to investigate radio as a medium and develop a form of radio-performance, a sensorial soundscape.

In terms of envelopment in a certain time/space, radio can transport us to a very specific moment outside (or is it inside?) of ourselves and of our view control, weather these moments happened in the past or in the future, if they are real or invented. These environments are extremely fertile in imaginary constructions bringing the listener to a creative realm and therefore bring the possibility of addressing another “sensible”.

This project will search to construct voices without bodies and create imaginary spaces. Places that are replaced by imaginary figures and landscapes, places that will ask for the reconstruction of bodies, situations and emotions.
In this line of thought “sense radio” aims to bring together the relation between different bodies and approaches in the invisible space of sound. When broadcasted in a public room “sense radio” will challenge the relation between the visitors, their experience and memory and the concrete space of the present where they find themselves in.

Lilia’s theoretic research on emotions and affect brought her to see the relationship between all the objects (people, things, thoughts,…) as sources of orientation(s) and as primary impulse of things, of worlds.

Credits

Sense Radio is a research project directed by Lilia Mestre
in collaboration with Pierre Rubio, Elke Van Campenhout, Els Viaene and David Elchardus.