On Air Time AIR TIME is an audio artwork that has been performed simultaneously across Europe during the opening day of Transeuropa Festival. In order to participate in the performance, one had to download the audio track from the Transeuropa Festival website to a smartphone or an mp3 player, and then reach the designated location at the agreed time. The track is about 40 minutes long and gives instructions to participants on how to interact with the surrounding space and people. It is the result of the collaboration among 13 artists from all over Europe: Anna Hoetjes, Amsterdam; Jordi Ferreiro, Barcelona; Joanna Von Mayer, Berlin; Flaviu Rogojan, Cluj-Napoca; Kerri Meehan and Alex Ressel, London; Alexandre Poisson and Alice Lahana, Paris; Roman Štětina, Prague; Elisa Abela, Rome; Nataliya Todorova, Sofia; Wojciech Tymicki, Warsaw.
The production of AIR TIME was coordinated by the German artistic collective LIGNA, which specifically adapted their signature radio ballet performance-style to this transnational event. On 5th October 2013, AIR TIME took place in the public space of ten European cities: Parliament Square in London, Dam Square in Amsterdam, Forat de la Vergonya in Barcelona, Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Place du Trocadéro in Paris, Vaclavske Namesti in Prague, Tiburtina Train Station in Rome, Copernicus Monument Square in Warsaw, Piața Unirii in Cluj-Napoca, and Ivan Vazov National Theatre Square in Sofia. A re-enactment of AIR TIME was held at Pariser Platz in Berlin, on Friday 25th October 2013, for the opening of TRANSEUROPA Forum. It saw the participation of Turkish activist Erdem Gündüz (see pages 18-19), the LIGNA collective and of more than 70 people who staged a 40-minute long choreography inspired by the actions and the ideas of movements of protests all around the world. We publish hereafter an extract of the original transcription of AIR TIME.
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