Future Nostalgia FM
I was thrilled to be included in the Future Nostalgia FM project as curated and executed by Nađa Kračunović. My piece War Comes to the Nightingale was included amongst many other talented artists as part of the experimental radio piece that will play out on loop for a thousand years.
Per the project’s website, Future Nostalgia FM is a digital, experimental, imaginary radio, combining speculative storytelling, poems, sounds, and audios that overlap eras - from the distant past to the possible future. Its nostalgic but futuristic content has a narrative that wavers between imagination, aspirations, and human interactions while offering alternative versions and perspectives of reality.
You can listen to the radio on the program’s website at https://www.futurenostalgia.digital/ and learn more at their Instagram
The Futurology Kiosk
Future Nostalgia FM is a part of the project Futurology Kiosks, a mixed-media project founded by visual artist Nađa Kračunović. Combining multiple mediums, sound (Future Nostalgia FM radio), spatial installation (kiosk as a time capsule), and performative objects (ceramics), its futuristic experience unsettles the present and speculates on the future. The inventory consists of imaginatively designed broken ceramics lavishly displayed to be dug out and explored. The artifacts are excavations from the future bringing nostalgia for what has never happened. The project has a narrative that waves between imagination, aspirations, and human interactions while exploring new fusions between mediums.
Futurology Kiosks is supported and funded by Kreativfonds and Frauenfonds from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The project's objective is to activate initiatives, groups and individuals that work in the domain of art through collective speculations on our future(s). The kiosk, with its futuristic objects, workshops, lectures and nostalgic radio programming will open in June 2022 in Weimar, Germany, while the radio program will be played both from the physical kiosk and online. To imagine a future, or futures, does not mean to predict or decide on, but rather to speculate on the manifold possibilities, causations and consequences.
Photo credits to Yavor Minchev and Nadja Kracunovic
