📅 March 4
🕖 19:00
📍 Studio 20
Hrachia Kochar 13

Within the framework of the Mattering Worlds Artist Residency, Ars Techne in collaboration with Studio 20 is pleased to host an artist talk by Lale Rodgarkia-Dara — a Vienna-based writer, radio-maker, and media artist whose practice spans sound, literature, community radio, and critical media culture.

Rodgarkia-Dara’s artistic research unfolds through what she describes as electroacoustic literature: performative formats in which text, voice, and electronic sound are activated collectively. Rather than approaching literature as a fixed object, she treats language as a living, resonant material circulating through radio waves, shared spaces, and technological interfaces. In her work, voice becomes infrastructure and sound becomes a site of political and social negotiation.

For over two decades, she has worked within independent radio networks and feminist hacker environments, including her involvement with Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory and various collaborative art-radio initiatives. Her projects explore how media systems shape perception, participation, and public space. Transitional zones — between analogue and digital, private and communal, signal and noise — form a recurring terrain in her practice.

Through participatory sound installations, radio experiments, and media-critical interventions, Rodgarkia-Dara investigates how technological frameworks structure collective experience. Screenshots translated into analogue slide projections, broadcast formats reconfigured as performative acts, and open-source practices embedded in artistic collaboration all reflect a sustained inquiry into how matter, medium, and meaning co-produce one another.

The Mattering Worlds residency foregrounds this ongoing research by asking how sound, language, and transmission generate worlds that are not abstract but materially grounded — shaped by infrastructures, bodies, and shared frequencies.

The talk invites reflection on the politics of voice, the ethics of transmission, and the possibility of reimagining media ecologies as spaces of collective agency.

Poster by Mary Hovsepyan.

Language: English
Armenian translation provided upon request

The event is supported by a residency grant of Land Niederösterreich.