*New podcast: OSKAR HANSEN. Open Form, Open Music*
David Crowley looks at Oskar Hansen's links to the twentieth-century Polish
electroacoustic scene, and the role of the experimental radio studio in
Warsaw in the sixties.
Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/oskar-hansen-david-crowley/capsula
In spite of having more or less remained in the shadows of
twentieth-century European art history, Oskar Hansen is one of those
figures who stand out as being ahead of their time. His career as an
architect, a catalyst for ideas, a designer, artist and teacher can be seen
as a collection of small gestures in favour of new conceptions of art and
of everyday life, which seek to recalibrate the scale and the rules of the
game, both in regard to the work and to the person who experiences it. In
this interview, David Crowley, expert in the history of art and design in
Eastern Europe during the communist era, explains the key points of
Hansen's ideas and traces its connections to mid-twentieth century Polish
electroacoustic music: from his involvement in redesigning the experimental
radio studio in Warsaw, to his ideas for pavilions and
sculptural/architectural designs in which sound is an integral part of the
overall project and experience.
Enjoy!