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  • Eldoradio

    April 6 - May 21, 2011

    In the frame­work of the 30th anniver­sary of the lib­er­a­tion of the radio waves in France, Bétonsalon pro­poses a journey into radio space via the archives of Eldoradio (click here), which have been assem­bled by radio afi­cionados over the last fifty years. Several researchers inter­ested in this fond – whether for its quality as an archive con­sti­tuted out­side of insti­tu­tional cir­cuits or for its con­tri­bu­tion to the memory of radio his­tory – have been invited to explore it and to pre­sent the out­come of their research.

    The var­ious con­tri­bu­tions con­sti­tute mul­tiple ways of inter­preting, anno­tating and some­times cor­recting the doc­u­ments on dis­play and the frag­ments of radio his­tory, which are rep­re­sented in the exhi­bi­tion. Offering a par­tial and non-exhaus­tive insight into the Eldoradio archive, the exhi­bi­tion doesn’t attempt to retrace 30 years of radio; instead, it hopes to con­front dif­ferent pos­sible uses and read­ings of doc­u­ments attached to a radio his­tory that yet has to be fully written.

    In a nut­shell, the artist Franck Leibovici has chosen to rep­re­sent, in the form of a map, the struc­ture and con­tent of the archives put together by the mem­bers of Eldoradio. Thierry Lefebvre, radio his­to­rian, is con­fronting his book La Bataille des radios libres 1977-1981 (’The Battle of free radio 1977-1981’) (2008) to the doc­u­ments and sounds found in Eldoradio’s archive through a visual and sonic time­line. Two doc­u­men­taries by film director Isabelle Cadière are screened: Radio Lorraine Cœur d’Acier (2009) and a short film about radio and women, pro­duced for the exhi­bi­tion. Elisabete Fernandes, a stu­dent in Cinematographic Studies at Paris Diderot University, attempts to the retrace the tra­jec­tory of Radio Voka, an Antillean and Guyanan radio sta­tion active between June 1982 and August 1983 in the Paris region. The artists Louise Hervé et Chloé Maillet pre­sent Total restora­tion, a radio­phonic fic­tion pro­duced in the frame­work of France Culture’s Radiophonic cre­ation work­shop (ACR). Drawing from a selec­tion of sound record­ings, the col­lec­tive L’ency­clopédie de la parole pro­poses a newly-cre­ated sound piece, a public lis­tening ses­sion and an anal­ysis of the archives in the form of a public foot­notes dis­sem­i­nated in the exhi­bi­tion space. As for Eldoradio’s mem­bers, they have con­sti­tuted a playlist of their archive acces­sible via a jukebox, while Bétonsalon’s team has made a selec­tion of doc­u­ments (posters, stickers, press clip­pings, pho­tographs, magazines, etc.), which are com­mented and inter­preted by a range of radio ama­teurs and pro­fes­sionals. This exhi­bi­tion has also given rise to var­ious col­lab­o­ra­tions with stu­dents and pro­fes­sors of Paris Diderot University. Amongst others, the stu­dents in ’sci­en­tific medi­a­tion’ taught by Thierry Lefebvre, Cécile De Bary and Richard Millet have con­ceived Bétonsalon’s Journal No. 10, as well as a short doc­u­men­tary intro­ducing the organ­i­sa­tion Eldoradio, its mem­bers and objec­tives.

    Les dif­férentes con­tri­bu­tions pro­duisent ainsi de mul­ti­ples manières d’inter­préter, d’annoter, de pré­ciser, voire de cor­riger les doc­u­ments exposés et les frag­ments de l’his­toire de la radio qui sont représentés dans l’expo­si­tion. Proposant une vue par­tielle et non exhaus­tive des archives Eldoradio, l’expo­si­tion ne vise pas à retracer 30 ans de radio, l’enjeu est plutôt de con­fronter dif­férents usages pos­si­bles de doc­u­ments liés à une his­toire de la radio trop peu écrite.

    Numerous events including con­certs, lis­tening ses­sions, pro­jec­tions, talks, tours and work­shops have been pro­grammed throughout the exhi­bi­tion which will cul­mi­nate into a sym­po­sium organ­ised by the Radio Research and Studies Group (GRER) on 20 and 21 May at Paris Diderot University.

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    Last part of the timeline inspired of Thierry Lefebvre’s book, "La bataille des radios libres (1977-1981), éd. Nouveau Monde INA, 2008", eldoradio.fr archives © photos Aurélien Mole

    For more infor­ma­tion on eldo­radio.fr click here 

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