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Calotropis is a community-based radio that believes in the importance of the ongoing pulse of music and making; aiming to stretch the radiophonic by dancing in the archives, collaborating with the underground, and, in their words, ‘never forgetting the skies beyond the sky’.
Calotropis orients the vocabulary of its practice around two principles of faith:
1) access to the event, and
2) the becoming of the radio.
Intuitively somatogenic in their practice, and in their forms of gathering, inviting all ears to experiment, breathe, oscillate, (g)listen — they overall insist that the radio must continue sharing and stretching its loving transmissions all while resisting against all who want to steal/kill ‘our’ sound.
The place of the radio, and so the place of Calotropis in the Kilele Summit 2025, involves a three-part installation that embeds itself to the core of summit — by streaming, recording and thus taking part in the archiving of elements of Kilele [available thru calotropis.xyz] — while altogether radioing into the summit by transforming its space into a playful and restful elaboration of 'the becoming of the radio'.
PROGRAMMING
The Rinse Room
What is the body saying? Are you still enough to listen? Is there tension in your shoulders? Is your jaw clenched? When was the last time you caught up with yourself? Inner ear, what signal are transmitting?
Situated in a room close to the basement elevators
— The Rinse Room is a place to rest the senses, because the radio is a place to rest the senses, because The Rinse Room is a part of the radio.
You may arrive here: one can soothe the senses, rest away while within the radiophonic of the summit and its sounds. In this room you can listen and not see, see and listen/or not, participate in some tactile play through crafting and be held.
Karibuni.
We will be situated in Calotropis HQ at the clocktower where we will also have a merch station right outside on the rooftop. Here, we shall continue to ask ourselves: what does the Inside of a radio look like?