Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 November
11am 11pm Palestine
6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Argentina
Roots is a 24-hour broadcast marathon that explores how the territorial and environmental conditions in Palestine are matters of geopolitical ecology and solidarity. The broadcast will feature sound, music, and conversations from Palestine and its diaspora networks. The transmission will be translingual in Arabic and English. Roots explores the relationship between human conflict and ecological devastation, especially as the dynamics of displacement and settlement relate to pollution, farming, and habitation of landscapes. Most of the broadcast will be live though some segments may include pre-recorded and archived material. The transmission will integrate Arabic, English and Spanish languages. The research will explore how the current political conflict is associated with ecological disaster, an investigation of the pollution of physical and conceptual ecosystems as they relate to the dynamics between settlement and farming.
Roots is transmitted by radioee.net (Radio Espacio Estación), a nomadic online radio station hosting live, 24-hour, translingual marathon broadcast events on topics of mobility and movement. Broadcasting from locations across the globe, radioee.net marathons explore in-situ manifestations of global issues of transportation, migration, and climate transformation. Creating a communication channel between local participants and global listeners, Radioee.net broadcasts develop public stories about complex mobility systems and scenarios specific to the sites and situations. Previous broadcast events have explored mobility systems and future climate scenarios from an abandoned rubber plantation warehouse in Fordlandia in the Brazilian Amazon, from a boat sailing along the expanding Miami waterways, from a pushcart going through the streets of Istanbul, and from a forlorn amusement park in East Berlin. During the Covid pandemic, we have expanded our restreaming and rebroadcasting network of independent radio stations across the planet creating a network of 50 interlinked radios. Radioee.net episodes are a form of experimental journalism that presents long stories. Our show features interviews with people of different backgrounds, social classes, interests, and disciplines; sound experiments that simultaneously research and activate spaces and technologies; archival materials; voices; creative interpretations and music. We use a translingual methodology of language integration rather than translation to explore how narratives and semantics determine and condition perspectives across cultures, developing a new technique for language learning.
The Broadcast is featured as part of BIENALSUR and co-produced by Radioee.net in collaboration with the School of Art, Music and Design, Birzeit University, Radio alHara, uncommon sessions, Disarming Design from Palestine and students from Birzeit University (Palestine), Central Saint Martins MA Narrative Environments (London), Central Saint Martins MA Cities (London), and Sandberg Institute MA Disarming Design (Amsterdam).
Poster designed by Mothanna Hussein
