Radia #1051 - Radiopille by Vienna Radia Collective Featuring Liese Schmidt - 19 September 2025

Members of **http://radia.fm**, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

The exhibition ‘https://www.kunstsammlungenakademie.at/de/ausstellungen/die-pfeile-des-wilden-apollo-klopstockkult--ossianfieber-732552025/)’ (an exhibition of the art collections in cooperation with the Exhibit Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna explores the transition from the Enlightenment to early Romanticism through the central role of music as a vehicle for spiritual experience and national mysticism: sounds of an early folk movement, Nordic drone scapes as an expression of a new national mysticism, bardic singing and the sounds of cosmic forces.

The video work magnetic fan fiction https://www.lieseschmidt.online/thecaseofmiss by Liese Schmidt responds to four portraits of so-called ‘clairvoyants’ shown in the exhibition, who are under the influence of a mesmeristic treatment. The work weaves together medical, spiritual