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Distorted Tango reveals how the Soviet Union spent more money on blocking radio stations from the west than on radio broadcasting itself – and what creative methods they used to make unbearable noise. Featuring Rimantas Pleikys, one time advisor of the Lithuanian Radio and Television Association.

You can hear Distorted Tango by visiting the artists website: https://dani-gal.com/

Dani Gal is a Jerusalem born, Berlin based artist whose work takes the form of films, installations and sound. Underlying all these is an intensive research practice that zeroes in on often-forgotten moments of historical transformation to reveal the shaping of cultural memory and ideology.

As the transmissions unfold, we hear a full spectrum of Gal’s approaches to making art for radio: from selected episodes of Different Time Different Place Different Pitch, which were commissioned by Documenta 14 and realized in collaboration with Achim Lengerer on SAVVY RADIO in 2017; to the two-part radio play entitled Vertigious commissioned for the podcast series On Certain Groundlessness – Navigating Dizziness Together in 2023.
These broadcasts invite us – as embodied listeners – to consider the relationship of political events to acoustic events. They can be understood as both historical documentaries and musical compositions in the tradition of musique concrète.

This weekly series of radio broadcasts is presented by the Belkin Gallery and The Polygon Gallery on CiTR 101.9 FM in tandem with two exhibitions featuring work by the the artist. For more information visit belkin.ubc.ca and thepolygon.ca