Lumpen Station Lumpen Station

A conversation with Tom Marioni
Recorded on 25.03.24 in Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne, le Studiolo
Host : Andrea Marioni / Guest : Tom Marioni / Duration : 01:04:58
Visual : Studio Vanieli / Photo : Courtesy of Tom Marioni / Co-production Lumpen Station & KBCB

Lumpen Connexions
Seijo and her soul, Karen Wener
2023 / 16:47 / Image created by Amy Franceschini 
Co-production Lumpen Station and Karen Werner

Seijo and her soul is an ancient ghost story, likely of Chinese origin. I encountered the story while studying Zen Buddhism. The story of Seijo and her soul is included in Zen koan training intended to deepen practice. Seijo and her Soul is a rare koan with a female protagonist. The story is of a woman who has to choose between her love and her home, chooses love and then separates from her soul. At the end of the story, Seijo encounters her soul again and we are asked: which is the real Seijo? This telling for Lumpen Station is woven into the FM radio spectrum, interference and distances between. 

Karen Werner is an artist and sociologist creating radio  performances and stories for broadcast and narrowcast. She makes conceptual, experimental radio stations of various scales and forms including SkottegatenFM, Radio Multe 93.8FM and an unnamed shadow/ jamming station and is a member of the international feminist group, Shortwave Collective. Karen lives in Bergen, Norway, where she is an Artistic Research Fellow at at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. 

OHH - Where do I want to be tonight? by Daniele Formica
curated by Ambra Viviani - Associates
co-production: Lumpen Station 



Daniele Formica's work comes from the impulse to internalize and repurpose the universe to its people. Combining cross-disciplinary knowledge and everyday banality, he composes a repertoire of linguistic revelations, schizophrenic theories, and poetic claims. 
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I recorded myself reading aloud “Where do I want to be tonight?”. This is one of the texts I am writing these days. If you are interested in more of them, please contact me at danieleformica96@gmail.com. Happy 2024 everyone!

Lumpen Connexions: 
LIKE A TELEPATH, by Diana Duta & Florence Cats
in collaboration with http://jaaambes.be
Hosted by Lumpen Station, production Jaambes 

‘Like a telepath’ pieces together a week-long journey of remote recordings. ‘Emitting’ and ‘receiving’ from a small island and from a city simultaneously, in order to mimick a radio device. To do this, we would start the recording of our parallel transmissions at the same moment in time, using the distance between us as a space to connect. What you hear is a photograph of a thought, a long, windy line tracing a series of synchronous compositions. Cover a moment, remain standing, crumpling paper in your hands. A phone rings – s in the past.
Brussels – L’Île-d’Yeu, May 2023

Diana Duta is a Romanian-born, Brussels based artist working with sound in hypnotic ways, with a background in art and socio-cultural linguistics. Her work focuses on concepts of mimesis, translation and echoic memory, with an ear on our relationship to the non-human, embodied sound and the act of listening. She makes music performances (as DIAN), works for radio, sound installations and collaborative translation projects.
Her project Jambes founded in 2019 is a recording studio commissioning new work by artists experimenting with sound and the voice. Quille podcast is an limb branching out from Jambes that collects interviews with sound practitioners.
http://dianaduta.com

Florence Cats is a visual & sound artist and acupuncturist from Brussels who uses theremin, light, water, color and energies. Her ‘transparent music’ tunes in to space and ambient silence, and is inspired by natural radio. She has curated of a series of exhibitions around water, signs, transmutations, and is the co-author of several books including ‘Lavori in corso’ (primitive press, 2020). She released ‘Ys’ on ediçoes CN in 2022 and ‘correspondances’ on frissons in 2021. She was also a member of The Asocial Telepathic Ensemble (corvo records, 2022) and often collaborates with other musicians and artists, such as Brandon LaBelle, Clara Levy, Bogdana Dima, Mauricio Amarante, Joseph Charroy.
https://florence-cats.com/

A conversation with : Pascal Lopinat 
enregistrement de l'émission du 21.03.24 diffusée depuis le Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne - Le Studiolo 
Production: Lumpen Station - KBCB

Pendant une conversation le percussionniste et multi-instrumentiste Pascal Lopinat partage son parcours, ses processus de création et ses différentes collaborations avec des artistes de plusieurs disciplines. 
Cette émission fait partie du cycle de focus sur la scène biennoise qui s'articule par plusieurs émissions tout au long de la résidence de Lumpen Station au KBCB. 

A conversation with : Emlio Nasser
recorded in Kunsthaus Biel Centre d'art Bienne - le Studiolo, 21.03.24
production: Lumpen Station - KBCB
Interview made during the Shipwreck of Dream, exhibition in Photoforum Pasquart 

A conversation with is a series of talks with artist about their early works, how they start their practice, how they face career and their current projet.