The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) announces Radio Resistance, a series of broadcasts that assembles the voices of local and global agents of change. A major component of the museum-wide group exhibition Stories of Resistance, on view at CAM through August 15, Radio Resistance features artists from the exhibition in dialogue with figures from the past, present, and future of St. Louis. Selections of Radio Resistance will be broadcast on St. Louis on the Air, the noontime talk program hosted by Sarah Fenske on St. Louis Public Radio. Guests include Congresswoman Cori Bush and artist Hank Willis Thomas on the theme "insisting on our humanity"; artist Dread Scott and historian Walter Johnson (The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States) on the history of organizing rebellions; and artist Jen Liu and scholar Candace Borders on women as activists. Using a historically rebellious medium, Radio Resistance broadcasts the power of defiance through social narratives. The episode "Dread Scott and Walter Johnson: Organizing Rebellion" is available now: https://camstl.org/event/radio-resistance-organizing-rebellion/.
Eleven episodes will be released over the course of the exhibition, amplifying shared struggles, collective dreams, and models of individual and group action. New episodes are available biweekly, with the St. Louis on the Air selections from Radio Resistance broadcast during Wednesday programs, a day prior to the release of the full episodes on Thursdays. The full episodes are available to museum visitors in a CAM listening room in one of the upstairs galleries, and may also be heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Later this year, a CAM publication of exhibition images and writings will further explore Stories of Resistance themes, including Radio Resistance broadcast highlights.
Stories of Resistance explores artistic forms of resistance from across the world. The exhibition activates the entire museum, inside and out, with the work of twenty-two artists in varied media including video, photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, and installation.
Radio Resistance episodes
Introducing Radio Resistance
Michelle Dezember, Wassan
Al-Khudhairi, and Misa Jeffereis
Available now
Organizing Rebellion
Dread Scott and Walter Johnson
March 25
Perseverance and Participation
Wendy Red Star and De Nichols
April 8
Leveling the Field
Glenn Kaino, Tommie Smith, and
Dr. Harry Edwards
April 22
Public Platforms
Marina Peng and Shannon Levin (PSA:) and Cleo Barnett
May 6
Additional episodes to be announced
Insisting on Our Humanity
Hank Willis Thomas and Congresswoman Cori Bush
May 20
Women as Activists
Jen Liu and Candace Borders
June 17
Forms of Liberation
Torkwase Dyson and Geoff Ward
July 1
Defiant Writing
Banu Cennetoğlu and
Treasure Shields Redmond
July 29
Afterword
Michelle Dezember, Wassan
Al-Khudhairi, and Misa Jeffereis
August 12