Vadsø
2026
Photos by Oleg Khadartsev
Laboratory description
Throat of these Hours is an artistic workshop in collectively conceiving, making and enacting experimental radio stations in Vadsø during Finnmark Flicker festival. The title comes from the American poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), whose poetics of communication will accompany us as we transition, over five nights, into midnight sun.
spaces, connected to breath, vibration and skin, and externalized vocal expressions, whether solo or collective, that travel the air and light, reaching beyond our bodies. Working with various scales of FM and online transmission, our radio stations will facilitate encounters for co-creating and mis/communicating.
The throat is the threshold between interior bodily and psychological
Workshop methods will include reading and discussing Rukeyser; doing body, listening and vocalization exercises; walking and collecting; setting up physical radio station scenographies; visiting Vadsø's long-time FM station; making paper broadcasts and on-air conversation scores and going on air.
Throat of these Hours is an artistic workshop in collectively conceiving, making and enacting experimental radio stations in Vadsø during Finnmark Flicker festival. The title comes from the American poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), whose poetics of communication will accompany us as we transition, over five nights, into midnight sun.
spaces connected to breath, vibration and skin, and externalized vocal expressions, whether solo or collective, that travel the air and light, reaching beyond our bodies. Working with various scales of FM and online transmission, our radio stations will facilitate encounters for co-creating and mis/communicating.
The throat is the threshold between interior bodily and psychological
Workshop methods will include reading and discussing Rukeyser; doing body, listening and vocalization exercises; walking and collecting; setting up physical radio station scenographies; visiting Vadsø's long-time FM station; making paper broadcasts and on-air conversation scores and going on air.
Experts
Karen Werner is working with radio, story, voice and performance.
Recently, she has been making radio stations as artistic forms, working with stations of varying durations and scales. Radio stations led her to on-air conversation as an artistic material for co-creating, learning with and experimenting with communication. This includes working with radio interference, and signal jamming.
Karen Werner (No / At)
Artist and sociologist, Ph.D. in Artistic Research from the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway
Artist and sociologist, Ph.D. in Artistic Research from the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway
In fall 2025, she joined the Mozarteum's Institute for Open Arts in Salzburg, Austria, as a professor of Artistic Research.
Recently, she has been making radio stations as artistic forms, working with stations of varying durations and scales. Radio stations led her to on-air conversation as an artistic material for co-creating, learning with and experimenting with communication. This includes working with radio interference, and signal jamming.
Karen Werner is working with radio, story, voice and performance.
Karen Werner (No / At)
Artist and sociologist, Ph.D. in Artistic Research from the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway
Artist and sociologist, Ph.D. in Artistic Research from the Art Academy in Bergen, Norway
In fall 2025, she joined the Mozarteum's Institute for Open Arts in Salzburg, Austria, as a professor of Artistic Research.
