Due to the lockdown, this is a recording from home, featuring a chat with artist and designer Wok the Rock and Casco’s director Binna Choi, and recordings contributed by researcher Nuraini Juliastuti, both from Indonesia. The episode was inspired by Wok the Rock's project Parasite Lottery (2016 in Casco, Utrecht) that was created with an intention to respond to the government's heavy budget cuts in the art and cultural sector. Nuraini Juliastuti’s research endeavors were leading in the direction for this broadcast, grappling with questions around song heritage and caring for an infrastructure of the commons. The red thread of songs for resistance unravels and draws lessons from Indonesia’s social movements, where the act of archiving is presented as a way to dissent from mainstream and dominant narratives in post-colonial Indonesia.
This is the second episode as Channel 4 of Common Grounds: Song / Value: Casco’s radio program.
Image description: The artwork for Common Air S3E2, where its title and text of its airing moment feature within the template, which is layered on top of a cutup image selection featuring drawings of activist posters regarding basic income and worker rights, The Parasite Lottery, nijntje, a broken bike, and more. Credit: Zuzana Kostelanská, template design. Layering done in house, 2021.
