Son[i]a #114

Judith Barry’s installations can be considered to be an intersection of different disciplines (architecture, sculpture, film, video, performance) forged in the seventies when postmodern theories first arrived on the art scene. A substantial part of Barry’s work, which is closely linked to feminism, revolves around issues of gender identity and the relationship between individuals and the urban environment. FONS ÀUDIO #17 takes the works Echo (1986) and In the Shadow of the City... Vam p r y (1985) as a springboard to explore some of the recurring elements in her work. 

Jef Cornelis is one of the pioneers of research into the language of television and its relationship to video art, documentary and the reading of history from the present, and also of the analysis of what it means to make a film. In the course of more than 25 years work at VRT, the Belgian public television corporation, Jef Cornelis directed a great deal of filmic material. His work has come to be seen as a milestone and a visual content bank of great importance to the the history of contemporary art. In FONS AUDIO #4, Cornelis contextualises some of his works in the MACBA Collection.

Transcript of TV ON THE RADIO #2, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith.

We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Martha Rosler that we were unable to include the first time around.

Martha Rosler analyses and questions the proliferation of surveillance systems and self-representations in contemporary society, while telling us about artistic circles in the seventies, the seminal video art scene, and the need to keep chasing utopias.

Presented in the galleries of the Museum on 23 February 2013 within the programme Experience MACBA, 'Cascando. Variations for another dramatic piece' is part of a radio play by Samuel Beckett, adapted and produced by Joan Morey.

Interview with Han Nefkens about art, writing, art collecting and patronage, on the occasion of the presentation of the Han Nefkens Foundation MACBA Award.

Transcript of TV ON THE RADIO #1, curated by Kenneth Goldsmith.

In this show, we treat visual works as if they're audio and see what happens. In most cases, we discover that the sounds emanating from the visual works can stand on their own as great listening experiences.

When television collides with audio arts, a new and disconcerting soundtrack emerges, one that can only have been a product of artists swiping, sampling, détourning, recycling, remixing, and mashing-up sources emanating from the television. This show rescues ten works, inspired by and taken from TV.