Grounded-- Pulsating
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, April 2024
Provincetown has always lived with uncertainty~~ from being a refuge during the AIDS crisis to watching its shoreline move each year. The micro-FM radio~~ with its fragile signal and intimate range~ carried that same pulse of survival and care.
During the winter of 2023-2024, radio uncertainty broadcast from my studio at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. The station was open to the town’s winter community, queer residents and fishermen, and and aimed to accommodate the act of “falling between frequencies.”
Grounded-- Pulsating presents these signals from the collective, translated into video, prints, home-made radio receivers*, and a love letter to radio uncertainty.
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Antenna (2024)
Site spesific installation, emergency blanket, sticks, duct tape
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detail, Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker (home-made radio receiver broadcasting from the kitenna outside the gallery)
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detail, Untitled (2024)
antenna wire, birtch bark, galena crystal, crocodile clip, safety pin
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X-ray for a Kite (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, April 2024
Provincetown has always lived with uncertainty~~ from being a refuge during the AIDS crisis to watching its shoreline move each year. The micro-FM radio~~ with its fragile signal and intimate range~ carried that same pulse of survival and care.
During the winter of 2023-2024, radio uncertainty broadcast from my studio at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. The station was open to the town’s winter community, queer residents and fishermen, and and aimed to accommodate the act of “falling between frequencies.”
Grounded-- Pulsating presents these signals from the collective, translated into video, prints, home-made radio receivers*, and a love letter to radio uncertainty.
Antenna (2024)Site spesific installation, emergency blanket, sticks, duct tape
detail, Resuscitation (2024)
marine debris, antenna wire, copper wire, galena crystal, safety pin, Zoom-recorder, speaker (home-made radio receiver broadcasting from the kitenna outside the gallery)
detail, Untitled (2024)
antenna wire, birtch bark, galena crystal, crocodile clip, safety pin
X-ray for a Kite (2024)
Monotype with antenna wire
Scared- Shared Heart and X-ray for a Kite (2024)monoprint with antenna wire
Utitled circuit (2024)
monoprint and chalk on paper, antenna wire
Séance (2024)
Monotype on paper
Radio Uncertainty (2024)
HD video, 2:13
photos: Sterling Bennett and Tinja Ruusuvuori
*credit for technical advice for building radio receivers: Shortwave Collective
The exhibition was developed during Ruusuvuori’s artist residency at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Thank you Irina Ruusuvuori, Vicky Tomayko, FAWC staff, fellow residents, and CAMP FR Free Radio Pyrenees participants for help and inspiration.