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Current ABA resident Nelson Beer has teamed up with Aram Abbas, Lore DeSelys and Varoujan Chetirian to reimagine the surrealist tradition of the Cadavre Exquis through a one hour radio-format "découpé" of auditory compositions. After giving themselves the task of producing fifteen one-minute audio files, each of the four players worked around sounds evoking “the habitat.” These sixty one-minute audio files were then assembled using a cut-up technique which consists of scrambling each file into a randomised order.

An evocation of "otherness," the Cadavre Exquis emphasises variations in the style, experience, and sensibility of its participants. Chaperoned by reviews such as "playful," "fun," and "enriching," the game encourages players to recognise themselves upon discovery of the finished product. While simultaneously witnessing the collaborative birthing of a monster, players’ contrasting experiences, sensibilities and styles, if accepted, transform that monster into an expression of endeared alterity.

Furthermore, in the radio format which you are listening to, this cut-up technique occurs as a massive concentration of energy (MasCon), scrambling theme, structure and saturation, to the point where our temporal relationship to space transforms. Chronicles of the everyday are elucidated through the poetic rearrangement of sound, foregrounding the necessity of moving towards an approval of "difference" within the collective body (no vin nouveau).

ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations across the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and archiving of these forms of ephemeral knowledge production.