[ Radio Bicyclette ]
a performance
by Katarina Soukup

RADIO BICYCLETTE is a Mobile Memory Machine for bicycle, radio and sound
pieces. The performance alludes and pays homage to the vital role played
by a web of clandestine radio stations in guiding non-violent,
spontaneous resistance to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in
August, 1968. RADIO BICYCLETTE takes place over four evenings: August
20-23, the 30th anniversary of the invasion.

Members of the public can interact and participate in the project by
cycling along with the artist during the performance and by tuning their
radios to RADIO BICYCLETTE's FM frequency.

Soukup's sound pieces weave oral histories–recorded this spring in
Prague–with amazing audio archives of the 1968 clandestine broadcasts.
One of many dramatic moments in these archives is the take-over of the
Czech Radio building by Soviet soldiers as it occurred live on the air.

With RADIO BICYCLETTE, radio becomes the metaphorical medium for the
transmission of history and memory.

RADIO BICYCLETTE is the second work Soukup has produced on themes of
1968 and clandestine radio. This past April her sound installation
"Rozhlas 68: History / Memory / Transmission" was exhibited during _Post
68: Desire and Demand_ at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna, Austria.