SEPT 10-13: PRISON RADIO FESTIVAL PRISHTINA

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I am happy to contribute a sound installation and a concert to the Prison Radio Festival Prishtina.

“so that weʼd never feel alone”, sound installation
“so that we’d never feel alone” is a quote from an interview with Teuta Bekteshi, a former political prisoner and refers to the prisoners’ communication with one another. The work references the knocking signals that were used to communicate through walls and via radiator pipes. These acoustic signals became an expression of solidarity and hope amongst the prisoners: for example, they were used to warn of the presence of prison officers, to call for a strike, or simply to say ‘good night’. The sound installation can be experienced spatially and is complemented by quotes from former political prisoners. 

concert: 
In her live concert, Camhy weaves together works and improvisations from the last three years, during which she has been struggling with Post-Covid syndrome: field recordings from the rugged karst landscape, improvisations recorded on a wooden church organ in an Alpine mountain village, and poem-like fragments dealing with chronic illness and hope. Camhy’s music involves electronic sounds, field recordings, vocals and effects, creating subtle, alienating and eerily fragmented soundscapes that range from noise and ambient to drone and industrial. For the concert organised as part of Prison Radio, she includes fragments from Prishtina Prison: sounds and songs of solidarity.

“PRISON RADIO is an international, transdisciplinary sound and radio art project that rethinks both prison and radio as social, political, and artistic structures. Taking the Former Prishtina Prison as a resonant site, the project approaches the prison not only as a historical institution of confinement, but also as a metaphor for wider invisible architectures of limitation: social roles, gender norms, borders, political pressure, economic constraint, trauma, language, surveillance, and silence. Through radio art, sound walks, live broadcasts, performances, talks, and collective listening formats, PRISON RADIO transforms a former site of punishment into a temporary space of voice, resistance, and public reflection.”

Participating artists, researchers, and contributors include: Adina Camhy (AT), Andrea Marioni/Lumpenstation (CH), Andrés Arizmendy Benavides (CO), Anouk Albrecht (DE), Eli Krasniqi (XK/AT), Elodie Olson-Coons (CH), Elsa Demo (AL), Eva Buzo (AU), Hazir Reka (XK), Ilir Bajri (XK), Juan Camilo Herrera Casilimas (CO), Knut Aufermann (DE), Labinot Kelmendi (XK), Maja Zećo (BA/UK), Orgest Azizi (FR/AL), Sarah Washington (DE/UK), Thomas Krempke (CH), Uta Ibrahimi (XK) and other local and regional as well as international artists, former prisoners, researchers, musicians, and community radio practitioners.


supported by
Österreichische Botschaft Prishtina, SKE