Art Dubai’s annual week-long dedicated radio station enables audiences near and far to have unique access to the fair’s daily life. It also offers a glimpse into some of the many conversations that take place around its conception, through a variety of sound projects created by Art Dubai participants. Working with a guest presenter each year, audio content is disseminated worldwide via web-stream and podcast free for all to hear.
Art Dubai Radio ran from 2011-2016.
In 2016, Art Dubai Radio invited Safina Radio Project to take over the airwaves. Directed by Anabelle de Gersigny, Safina Radio Project was an itinerant online broadcasting platform, each edition acting as a roving stage for conversation and performance, working alongside contemporary art events.
The project adopted radio as a format for exploring concepts that tie into aesthetic, social, cultural and political undercurrents of the proposed art events it collaborates with. The space become an intimate forum for binding different realities, with participants and listeners prompted by the site, context and its curatorial pretexts. Content varied with each iteration, combining conversations, performative pieces and audio projects aimed at interrogating artistic practices, building on a broad spectrum of artists, writers and musicians. Through a multiplicity of access points, Safina Radio Projects intended to broaden conversations and widen interactions
The Dhaka Art Summit 2016 edition of Safina Radio Project explored common grounds within historical contexts, providing a cross section of origins and their interpretations, responding to the practices, curatorial premises and work on show. For its first iteration at the opening of the Venice Biennale 2015, transitory communities were created with each journey taken on the Safina Radio Project boat, bringing focus to collective experience and targeting an investigation into how we locate ourselves and how we mediate human and historic commonality.
Art Dubai Radio 2016 was commissioned by Alserkal Avenue.
