This year sees the launch of the Art Licks Weekend radio station, run in partnership with TACO! and RTM. Commissioned artworks will be broadcast daily, alongside scheduled content from arts practitioners nationwide. The radio will act as a forum for further conversation around the festival’s theme of Interdependence and the questions it prompts.
The broadcasts will be online here:
https://rtm.fm/shows/art-licks-weekend-radio
Tune is to hear Mia Thom’s audio piece, “Here! Your Golden Scarab” on Sunday, 20th October 2019, at 13:42 :
An audio compilation of an archive, collated over a month, of 30 artists contributing vocal accounts on synchronicity, manifested dreams, visions and other inexplicable happenings.
Contributing artists :
Cathy Abraham
Katherine Bull
Mira Calix
Hanien Conradie
Vanessa Cowling
Jessica Meyer
Nicola du Toit
Coila-Leah Enderstein
Lance Herman
Georgia Kruger
Michaela Limberis
Io Makandal
Nomusa Makhubu
Khanya Mashabela
Virginia McKenny
Sukuma Mkhize
Nobukho Nqaba
Sean O’Toole
Carolyn Parton
Gabrielle Raaf
Chloë Reid
Amy Rusch
Matt Slater
Katherine Spindler
Cara Stacey
Anna Stielau
Sitaara Stodel
Mia Thom
Jasmin Valcarcel
James Webb
Michaela Younge
Piano extracts:
1) Chopin Nocturne no 19. in E minor, op. 72 no.1
Pianist: Estelle Roux
2) Ligeti Étude No. 10 'Der Zauberlehrling’
Artist and Pianist: Coila-Leah Enderstein
Studio recordings conducted by Sound Engineer, Dave Langemann and artist Mia Thom
“Echo” voices: Denise Onen, Mia Thom, Katherine Spindler
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Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office (TACO!) is an artist-led space for research, production, and exchange located in Thamesmead, SE London. TACO! is engaged with its local context whilst simultaneously supporting dialogue with artists and contemporary art.
Launched on October 19th 2018, RTM is a new community radio station for Thamesmead that hosts a diverse and eclectic programme of local talent, music, artists, interviews and more. The station has been developed and initiated by TACO!, as part of a commissioned project by artist Sam Skinner.