Movement | Radio

Movement Radio acts like a data center or memory bank for the Movement Festival. Over ten days, on a 24-hour-basis, it will feature a continuous broadcast of commissioned pieces, thematic mixtapes, works of audio documentation, testimonies of migrationary itinerancy, narratives, interviews, and DJ sets.

The Movement’s pop-up radio station aims to move the Festival beyond the event’s temporal and spatial borders, and will run from February 14-23, 2020 in a reactivated space inside the Merchants’ Arcade (“Stoa Emporon”) in the center of Athens. At its core, Movement Radio is a sonic agent broadcasting sounds, tonalities, noises, echoes and reverberations, words, thoughts and ideas – a sonically-perceived museum, an imaginary archipelago, mapping communities and sounds in movement.

Movement Radio also presents a new video installation comprising all the world’s flags in constant motion without borders, limitations, or shapes. The video installation was created by the curatorial duo DETACH and was commissioned by Onassis Stegi.

Movement Radio is a collaboration between researchers, leading artists, musicians, filmmakers, thinkers, scientists, communities and activists.

The Stoa Emporon (Merchants’ Arcade) stores, which have reopened after urban interventions by the City of Athens’ Development and Destination Management Agency, were kindly provided by the National Single Agency for Social Insurance (EFKA) to the Onassis Stegi for the “Movement 1920-2020” festival.