JONATHAN FRIGERI

 JONATHAN FRIGERI
born in Lugano in 1978
living and working between Geneva, Brussels and Bienne

Jonathan Frigeri is a sound/radio artist, performer and artistic director or in a more unconventional definition he is a speleologist artist and psychic engineer working between art and technology. He tries to use technology with a lo-fi approach in order to reveal critical thinking through a poetic perfume. The media are peeled off and questioned in their communicative, social and philosophical functions. Pushing the borders and limits of a possible reality in order to see and hear behind the curtains and to deal with the space in between, between here and there.

He is the founding director of the Institute for Research on Radio and Magic (IIRRM) which is dedicated to finding imaginary solutions at the frontier between technology and magic.

Artist Statement

The project blends elements of experimental music, sound art, performance, ritual, lecture and live radio drama. It is a divagation; it wanders throughout the questions of the matter of the radio, the radiophonic space and its relationship with the human being.

We can locate these divagations of thought, in a hybrid form, halfway between the fantastic tale, a scientific experiment, a story of ideas around the radio medium and a gradual shift to the occult. A rite sets in to give a new experience to listeners between hypnosis, magic, and witchcraft gradually towards a more collective form of communion.