War Radio Show

 

WAR RADIO SHOW , an exhibition curated by Ricardo Forriols and featuring artists Acaymo S. Cuesta, Irma Marco, Xavier Monsalvatje, Javier Rodríguez Pino, Sabela Zamudio and the Alfaro Hoffman Collection.
“The exhibition has as its particular origin a well-known radio device made in Germany, the VE301, which was designed around 1933 following the instructions of Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich, and was marketed at a modest price as “the people's radio”. It is an example of design, production and technology at the service of politics, a “modern” tool of media propaganda to spread the ideas of Hitler's National Socialist government. We have one of these devices, on loan from the Alfaro Hoffman collection, which will be in the room together with documentation from the period. Pointing to the same aspect of the media as a loudspeaker for power and society, but pointing in another direction, as has been proven in situations of natural disaster and has been used as a plot element in films, if telephone lines or satellites fell or there was an Internet disconnection, human beings could continue communicating at a distance through radio, since it is a wireless system that uses electromagnetic waves as a channel. Based on the presence of the device, its function and context almost a century ago, we want to relate history to the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict and current events (information and counter-information, fakes through networks, media), proposing a collective exhibition that addresses the problem of communication control, the political deformation of reality, repression, violence and its results, the crisis and catastrophe that war represents.”