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ABA Air Salon Broadcasted through Colaboradio via Freies Radio Berlin/Brandenburg (88,4 MHz in Berlin 90,7 MHz in Potsdam)

The ABA's Air Salon Radio is a collective listening session in the container (OTTO) at the House of Statistics. Open to all visitors every month during our open-air meetings.

What time is it over there? 你那邊幾點? Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser (o!sland) are an artist duo currently at the residency of ABA. After Hong Kong’s 2019 democracy movement, they started an ongoing project about the imaginations of home of Hongkongers who left their city during the different migration waves of the past decades.

This radio show features stories from the way home in Berlin and Hong Kong. It’s a part of an ongoing search for street corners, moments in time and personal memories where these two cities touch and their histories speak to each other. What is belonging when we lose the sense of home? These stories are not only crossing geographically, but also travel between times and generations. How do the experiences of the German separation resonate with Hong Kong’s future?

Underground stations and a minibus, world clock, a blue school uniform, singing a song in the night, arriving at Brandenburger Tor, Victoria/Viktoria/維多利亞 statues, standing under the rain, what time is it over there?

Artist: Dorothy Wong Ka Chung, Benjamin Ryser

Voice Actor, Voice Actress: Maria Sautter, Meret Roth, Santayana Li, Sebastian Ryser, Tsoi Wan Wa Shirley,

Project Participant: Charlotte Lee, Ho Hin Chan, Mary Lee, Sai Wing Lau, Tsoi Wan Wa Shirley, Wing Yin Tang,

Translator: Charlotte Lee

www.oisland.co

www.dorothywongkachung.com

Pictures by Stefanie De Bakker

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.