RADIO DOIKAYT 97.9 "WHERE WE LIVE"

gambletron 2024

mixed media: found antenna, radio transmitters, radios, barn wood etc

Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory

curated by Craig Williams @ Kamloops Art Gallery 

group show w/ J.Forever, Z.Teifenbach 

This multi channel FM sound sculpture sonically yearns for the shtetl GAMBLETRON’s Jewish ancestors came from. The work focuses on the artists absolute homeland Tarłow, Poland and Pavolich Ukraine. The radio stations are filled with original compositions and field recordings attached to a modified tv antenna mounted on an imagined roof from a modern Eastern European village.

Visitors are encouraged to dial into one of the 10 channels of one of the 4 radios in the gallery to create their own version of the soundscape. The visitors are also encouraged to move the radios around to play with the acoustics.

​This sculpture is interrogates the idea that a homeland is nothing more than an actual homeland. As Eastern Europeans zev, gamble were pointing directly to a homeland they yearn not to have been kicked out of punctuating that bruitaly colonizing a foreign nation and creating a new jewish state is not the answer.