Feminist Acts of Ham Radio

Published: July 14, 2023, 8 a.m.

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Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She creates works collaboratively and in community settings, often responding to social issues. Recent projects include \\u2018The Right to Record\\u2019 (2021) - a creative campaign with disabled activists, which successfully lobbied the Government to change a harmful clause within the benefits system; \\u2018Meet Me on the Radio\\u2019 (2020-21) - a weekly Resonance FM programme co-produced with elders isolated during lockdown; and \\u2018o-o-radio!\\u2019 (2023) - a project at Wysing Arts Centre, constructing homemade radios with d/Deaf young people, to better understand how hearing aids operate.

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Hannah has a particular interest in transmission arts - she experiments with DIY radios and produces zines to make these technologies accessible. She is a member of feminist radio art group Shortwave Collective and arts cooperative Soundcamp, and has produced works for Radio Art Zone (2022), Movement Radio (2022), and Radiophrenia (2020-22).

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In this episode Owen Kelly makes a genuine inquiry into the possible interfaces between feminism and ham radio.

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