Radio Against Repression
Radio Against Repression
Podcast Description
The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.
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The show centers on relationships between censorship, defunding, and repression, with specific topics including artistic freedom, the effects of political policies on creative expression, and the dynamics within Berlin's cultural landscape. Episode examples include discussions on policing education and how state repression impacts both artists and citizens' freedom of speech.
The radio hour and podcast that explores relationships between censorship, defunding and repression. Broadcast live out of Berlin on 88.4 FM monthly, and thereafter published as a podcast, with additional guest interviews dropping throughout the year. Meet performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar, independent radio activist of 10 years jewelz, and artist Alex Head. Where state repression of artistic freedom foreshadows the repression of the private citizen’s freedom of speech, this show will seek to turn the microphone, to witness how censorship and repression are re-shaping the cultural landscape of Berlin, while artists and activists find creative ways to communicate their urgent concerns to one another. All against a backdrop of evermore troubled relationships between artists, institutions, creative scenes and political commonalities. Each responding to policies emanating from the political Far Right to defund the arts, social infrastructure, education and welfare. Created with sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. Affiliated with Arts and Cultural Alliance Berlin.
Discussing censorship and the threat thereof in the German cultural scene, as a form of negative psychic and political energy that enters the physical and social body. With Siegmar Zacharias, performance artist and founding member of freelance dance ensemble berlin, and Merlin Gebhard, theater director and musician. Join Radio Against Repression to discuss the playbook of defunding and strategies of resistance.
Hosted by Jara Nassar and Alex Head
Seigmar Zacharias
https://soundcloud.com/siegmar-zacharias/re-generation-master-10-10
Merlin Gebhard
https://sprechwerk.hamburg/produktionen/they-thought-they-were-free/
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KOP Berlin – https://kop-berlin.de/ Palestina Spricht – https://www.palaestinaspricht.de/
Rote Hilfe – https://rote-hilfe.de/rechtshilfe/was-tun-wenns-brennt
3ezwa, a new association for justice in Germany and freedom in Palestine – https://3ezwa.de/
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