B-Side RADIO

B-Side Radio - produced in partnership with Composite: Moving Image Agency & Media Bank

To celebrate Blindside's 20th anniversary we are turning the gallery into a live broadcasting studio - streaming B-side Radio to the world. The program will celebrate Blindside's artistic community, with conversations, sound-works, readings, performances and experiments by Blindside artists, Artistic Directors and like-minded partner organisations.

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A Blind Passion by Siying Zhou & Angela Liang: This series examines the meaning of success through conversations with artists who have received notices from Blindside-ARI about their unsuccessful applications.

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ART SMITTEN by Audrey Merton, Jennifer Hunt, Teagan Ramsay & Lucy Grant: Join local arts and culture radio Art Smitten of SYN Media for an exclusive deep dive into Blindside's history!

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B-Side Sounds by Sammy Perryman: B-Side sounds focus' on local & experimental sound artists, featuring interviews with a handful of musicians and performers who have presented exhibitions at Blindside over its 20 year history, reflecting on their work relating to Blindside and beyond.

Big Red Star by Mary Shaw: Big Red Star enjoys the tainted, living quality that the spoken word takes on. This program will celebrate the byproduct of bootlegging. This is disguised as a radio program. Songs play, lyrics are filtered through a digital chain of command, they are mixed, then broadcast.

Call Waiting presented by Martina Copley with Artists Tara Denny, Lou Hubbard, Gabriella Imrichova, Ming Liew, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Josephine Mead, Sanja Pahoki, Chunxiao Qu, Amaara Raheem, YongPing Ren, Francesca Rendle-Short, Fiona Shewan, Joel Stern, Benjamin Woods, Bixiao Zhang. Drawing from poet John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem New York, 1968, in which Giorno set up a toll-free telephone number that a person could call to hear recordings of artists, poets, musicians and activists of his era, Call Waiting is a stuttering make-shift live broadcast dealing with reading aloud and writing in contemporary art practices.

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Co-Ordinate 2.0 by Vivienne de Matteis & Georgia Cheesman: Co-Ordinate 2.0 is a reimagined expansion of Blindside’s Co-Ordinate, a program originally connecting three Naarm-based spaces with counterparts in Aotearoa. Through reciprocal dialogue, the program examined the challenges and evolving identities of artist-run initiatives. Now, Co-Ordinate 2.0 extends this exchange, starting with Listen Gallery in Glasgow (UK).

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COMMUNITY: Agency Spotlight: Agency Projects presents Leila Gurruwiwi and Jenna Lee in conversation: Agency Spotlight is in conversation with Blindside's Josephine Mead and Agency Projects Public Programs lead Leila Gurruwiwi speaking on the year that was for Agency Projects, including a chat with multidisciplinary First Nations artist Jenna Lee.

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COMMUNITY: Arts Projects Australia spotlight; "It's All About Chris" - a conversation with Chris O'Brien: It's all going to be about Chris and his friends. We'll talk about speed-dating, old houses, The Block, and the traffic accident out the front of Arts Projects.

COMMUNITY: Djaa Djuwima: a conversation with Janet Bromley: In conversation with Janet Bromley of Djaa Djuwima. Djaa Djuwima is a dedicated and permanent First Nations gallery on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Janet will discuss the work Djaa Djuwima has done, upcoming projects and the value of art and mentors for young First Nations practitioners.

CONTEXTURE by Debris Facility: Using durational, drone and recursive experimental compositions as the scaffolding, we will build associative layers through live readings of artist texts, poetry, critical writing and found text.

DESERT ISLAND ART by Vittoria Di Stefano: In this show, adapted from the long-running BBC radio program ‘Desert Island Discs’, artist and educator Vittoria Di Stefano asks local artists to nominate three artworks to take to a hypothetical ‘desert island’, discussing the impact of these artworks on their lives and practices. Guests: Ruth O'Leary and Beau Emmett.

ELEVATOR FREQUENCIES by Dan Koop and Jamie Lewis: It’s 30 seconds up from G to level 7 in the Nicholas Building elevator. ELEVATOR FREQUENCIES shares this ride via a live sound encounter and participatory broadcast for lift users and the Blindside community, transforming this resonant space into a sound booth for live broadcasting and intimate encounter. Outside the lift participants can choose to enter the designated elevator (or another if they’d prefer not to participate) to contribute.

HOUSE-HOLD- curated by Rosa Spring Voss & Josephine Mead.

HOUSE-HOLD is a day of radio programming curated by Rosa Spring Voss and Josephine Mead, to consider expanded notions of care from artist-parents, health practitioners and caregivers.

We want to acknowledge that parenting can come in many forms, with or without biological children. We are interested in alternative methods for world-building and family building that embrace queer, non-normative perspectives. We want to hold space for multiple ways of raising, supporting and loving kin.

Contributors: Roslyn Orlando, Camille Laddawan, Jazz Money, Gopi Lev Dupain, Grace Wood, Jaf Elias, Briony Galligan, Ruth O'Leary, Jessica Wain, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Josephine Mead, Rosa Spring-Voss.

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How'd You Get That Gig? With Kristyn Martin & Phoebe Crehan: Phoebe Crehan and Kristyn Martin speak to professionals about the opportunities, experiences and education that shaped their career pathways, providing an opportunity for up and coming creatives to benefit from the kind of conversations they might not have access to in their own personal networks, and dissolving some of the mystery that might act as a barrier to a career in the arts.

Inner Feild with Restless Spring X Banda: A radio voyage that hopes to carry you high and away, across wide waters and through the wild weft of time. It is an open window and a summer breeze, mysterious and fleeting. Here, then it’s gone and forever blue. A love letter from our ears to yours.

Joy Zhou in conversation with Sebastian Henry-Jones: For Blindside’s B-SIDE RADIO, artist Joy Zhou speaks with West Space Curator Sebastian Henry-Jones about Joy’s site-responsive work unfolding in the West Space Window over the Summer months.

Listen Carefully by Vivian Qiu: A conversation with Caesar Li, Zhen Xiong, Evelyn Han & Yue Yang regarding ah ah ah art! - a collaboration with ACCA which consists of a social club for Chinese speaking communities.

Out - of - line Compiled and edited by Sonam: –ool–notes- is an audio-publication, with its first issue annotations playing around with the many possibilities of annotating as note-making. With contributions by Padmabhan, Anish Cherian, Priyesh Gothwal, Kaushal Sapre, Shiv Ahuja, Jayant Manchand, Aasma tulika, Sonam, Abhaydev Praful, Suvani Suri, Tasneem Lohani, Manav Khadkiwala, Tanya Rana, Malik Irtiza, Maithili Bavkar, Narendran Nair

Pan-European Picnic by Zoltan Fecso: Pan-European Picnic is a show highlighting experimental sounds from Central and Eastern Europe. Although Western European experimental sound history is well documented, less attention has been given to the radical pioneers of experimental music who were silenced or banished by political regimes in the East. This has ongoing effects today with underrepresentation of Eastern European artists and limited opportunities due to the continuing political and social conditions. The show will present a timeline from early pioneers to the work of visionary artists today in cities including Budapest, Warsaw, Riga and Bratislava and more.

Pear Poetry by Nat Briggs: Pear Poetry is a compilation poetry radio show.

Pretend Takeover: Pretend Radio takeover our airways.

Radio Roohafza Replay by Kaushal Sapre and Aasma Tulika: Radio Roohafza is an internet radio station that streams sound from Delhi, India. It is hosted on a low cost, low tech web server system running on a consumer internet line. Its physical infrastructure consists of old laptops and single board computers. You can tell from the sound of its cooling fan if it has got visitors, or perhaps just a botnet sniffing around. It is co-maintained by Kaushal Sapre and Aasma Tulika.Radio Roohafza Replay, presented on B-Side Radio, is a collection of 4 episodes that turn into precarious arrangements of living. It invokes a revolutionary history of the radio in Algeria, Etel Adnan's poem 'The Arab Apocalypse', a live mix that negotiates with queue lines and waiting, and recordings of Dr. B R Ambedkar's voice found on the internet.

Sound and Architecture by Maya Borjesson: Sound and Architecture, though distinct art forms, share several core similarities. Both involve a process of composition, both unfold over time, and both incorporate elements like energy, texture, rhythm, and repetition. For Borjesson, the two have always been a natural pairing. This program will explore the less obvious intersections between sound and architecture, where sound is not part of the architectural brief. In this exploration, Borjesson will examine sound and architecture through sound works by international, local and First Nations architects, sculptors and musicians.

SOUND-TRACK: A compilation show of sound works.

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Speculations of the Artist Run Initiative Model: A conversation between Channon Goodwin and Martina Copley: As a starting point for the conversation being Blindside's recent 20th anniversary, Channon and Martina will discuss the role of Artist Run Initiatives as vital spaces for artistic experimentation and collaboration.

SpringCity 30642 by MaggZ with sound production by Kieran Crowe,: SpringCity 30642 is a sonic game-performance by MaggZ, situated within movement, sound installation and technology. SpringCity 30642 transforms different spaces into a participatory game-design laboratory, to further investigate the idea of world-building and heterotopia, through a diasporic minority-Chinese lens. As such, to recontextualise localised myth and ancestral practices of Kunming City (Yunnan Province, China) through post-internet lens.

Temporary Position: Collecting Practice by Zoe Baumgartner and Mara Schwerdtfeger: Temporary Position reframes their archive as collective practice in this audio manifesto. Reflecting on collaborative projects such as De-Choiring, Reading in the Presence of Others and Streaming Surrounds, they explore how collective practice can be a tool for shared experience.

The (Sonic) Possibilities Are Immense: Fifty Years of the George Paton Gallery by Channon Goodwin & Chantelle Mitchell: This show will go in search of audio traces from the rich history of the George Paton Gallery, as they celebrate their 50th anniversary!

The Ninth Tone By Sally Ann McIntyre and Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung: Sally Ann McIntyre and Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung present an expanded improvisation from an excerpt of their iterative work 'The Ninth Tone', adapted for radio. [https://www.speakpercussion.com/the-ninth-tone/].

Two Wheels by Jahan Xanlü, Hongkongology & Gilang Propagila: A modern embrace of cassettes, their accessibility across the world, and potential randomness when used in DJing.

You say shit, I say shiiiit! - co-produced by Siying Zhou and Angela Liang:  This multi episode series delves into swearing within Naarm/Melbourne's immigrant artist community.

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