Episodes are available for download on iTunes, as well as on the dynamic Radio Silence website, alongside archival images and research, resources, and essays by leading practitioners on performance, Iraqi culture and music, and contemporary visual art designed by Ryan Hines.
on WPPM Phill圜AM Radio 106.5 FM, on community radio stations across the country with support from the Prometheus Radio Project, and was distributed nationwide through Public Radio Exchange (PRX). The special multi-episode radio show aired Sundays from April 15–at 5 p.m. Weaving these perspectives together, Radio Silence revives ghosts of days gone by and humanizes unspoken sides of a new American story. Using first-person narrative, poetry, and music, in English and Arabic, Radio Silence reconstructs a timeline of remembrances spanning the culturally rich Iraq of the 1960s to the decimation of physical and emotional landscapes during and after the war. Rakowitz and Thomas also conducted a series of workshops and recordings with Warrior Writers, creating poetry and songs and capturing stories of American veterans who served in Iraq. Episodes feature recordings of Abdulwahed, plus interviews with his wife and a number of other Iraqi refugees living in the Philadelphia area. The radio show, hosted by Rakowitz, includes themes such as secrets, shyness, silent letters, censorship, dead air, and peace. The project interwove dreams and memories from Iraq, America, and in-between into a soundscape of the contemporary refugee experience, the Iraqi diaspora, and the culture of an Iraq, that due to war and political unrest, no longer exists. Conceived specifically for Philadelphia as the birthplace of American democracy, Radio Silence was inspired by famed Iraqi broadcaster Bahjat Abdulwahed, who lived in the city as a refugee until his death in 2016. Radio Silence was a performance and broadcast project produced by Mural Arts, with artist Michael Rakowitz and curator Elizabeth Thomas. On April 15, 2018, Rakowitz and Mural Arts launched a seven-episode radio broadcast, the follow-up to a large-scale performance on Independence Mall in Historic Philadelphia that was simulcast on Phill圜AM TV. It's art because it's impossible for this to exist in the world. location Independence Mall and as a podcastĪs an artistic gesture I try to make an unlikely thing happen, and the impossible becomes possible.
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