Revenant

This afternoon at 3pm – Canadian radio artist Anna Friz presents a radio art work that explores mortality, rot, and regeneration, using electronic and radiophonic instruments, and field recordings made both below and above ground.

The first part reflects on a summer of extreme heat and wildfire, and the desire to escape into the safety of a burrow underground.

The second reconsiders the mythical journey of the living into the underworld, wondering what kind of organism does one need to become to burrow down to the earth in order to reunite with a deceased loved one? The creatures who move easily through the soil are often considered abject: insects, rodents, serpents, worms. A journey to the underworld requires metamorphosis of body and senses on the quest for visitation with the dead.