« ABA's Air SALON » air salon: Radio Bridge

A project under the Bridge of Solidarity, featuring readings of essays by Olga Bubich and accompanied by electroacoustic music produced by Bomberman.

Olga Bubich is an essayist, journalist and artist working with images, video and texts to tackle personal, collective and collected memory about traumatic past events, censorship and misremembering by repressive regimes. In the authorial dimension of her career, Olga collaborates with German, Austrian, Swedish, British and Belarusian media. In 2021, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ grant, she published The Art of (Not) Forgetting, a photobook now in the collections of more than 20 museums, libraries and art centres around the world.

Olga Bubich is an ICORN Fellow in Berlin (2023/2024), a keynote speaker at the ICORN General Assembly in Copenhagen (2024) and the winner of the Tbilisi Data Fest hackathon (2022).

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.