This book is the culmination of more than twenty years of dedication to a cause, the result of a process to establish the conditions for radio to become a flourishing genre of art (p. 5).
Radio Art Zone operates as an anthology, an exhibition, a manifesto or series of manifestoes, and as the staking of a claim in the ground of art practices—finding a space for radio art among other genres and working to define or develop a definition for this genre. The editor, Sarah Washington, has been working with radio as a medium in various iterations across Europe and internationally. Her projects include radio stations, music and sound, and radio art works, and supporting networks of broadcasters, radio artists, and communities. This volume collects traces or evidence of Radio Art Zone (RAZ), a series of 22-hour-long works for radio, broadcast in Luxembourg over one hundred days in the summer...