Seijo & her Soul includes two radio stations: Radio Multe sending across the city at 98.3FM and an unnamed shadow station with a weak transmitter sending at 88.6FM. The performance installation begins each evening at sunset and lasts an hour amidst the transition to darkness. Rotating members of the Radio Multe Ensemble enact a score that includes an ancient story, on-air conversation as co-creation and music, broadly defined. Visitors, who are given an FM radio, join at any point during each evening rendition: like tuning a radio, they drop in, linger, rest a while, wander.
Seijo & her Soul extends into the city space with fragile paper broadcasts: hand-made wheat-pasted posters announcing the event and a zine that visitors receive when they leave, carrying the signal home. Seijo & her Soul brings together aspects of SkottegatenFM and Radio Multe: the radio station as an artistic form; qualities of radiophonic spaces; on-air conversation as co-creation; repetition and duration; relations between artist and audience and poetics of interference.
Paper broadcasts posters
Preformance installation
A second paper broadcast that is part of Seijo & her Soul is an eight-page risographed zine given to installation visitors as they return their FM radios and leave the space. While the poster initially sent a signal into the air and the performance kept the signal alight, the zine extends it after the event, transforming personal backpacks and bags into carrier waves.
The zine was designed and riso-printed by Johanna Sevholt with illustrations by Amy Franceschini. Written in a straightforward style, the zine integrates artistic research with art and also invites non-academic readers into the artistic research.
