The Polygon Gallery and the Belkin are pleased to present Radio Art by Dani Gal on CiTR 101.9 FM as a complement to the exhibitions Aporia (Notes to a Medium) and Dani Gal: Historical Records.

Listen here every Wednesday at 11am beginning March 20. Or tune in at 101.9 FM.

Through his in-depth research and technical experimentation, artist Dani Gal draws our attention to a vast, distributed archive of sound documents and their role in the workings of ideology and the production of cultural memory. Gal understands radio as an “acousmatic instrument” after the Greek “accousma” or a ‘thing heard’. And these transmissions on CiTR 101.9FM invite us – as embodied listeners – to consider the relationship of political events to acoustic events. They can be perceived as both historical documentaries and musical compositions in the tradition of musique concrète.

Throughout the 11 weeks of transmissions, we hear a full spectrum of Gal’s approaches to art for radio: from selected episodes of Different Time Different Place Different Pitch, which was composed live by Gal (in collaboration with Achim Lengerer) as a series of radio programs originally broadcast by Documenta 14 / Savvy Funk in the summer of 2017; to the two-part radio play entitled Vertiginous, which was recorded in 2023 for the podcast On Certain Groundlessness, produced by Ruth Anderwald, Leonhard Grond and Sergio Edelsztein.

Broadcast Dates
Wednesday, March 20 at 11am
Wednesday, March 27 at 11am
Wednesday, April 3 at 11am
Wednesday, April 10 at 11am
Wednesday, April 17 at 11am
Wednesday, April 24 at 11am
Wednesday, May 1 at 11am
Wednesday, May 8 at 11am
Wednesday, May 15 at 11am
Wednesday, May 22 at 11am
Wednesday, May 29 at 11am

To listen to Dani Gal’s soundworks after the broadcast, visit his website at dani-gal.com.

Banner image: Still from Dani Gal’s Dark Continent, 2023. Photo: Itay Marom