Performa Radio

Jamie Isenstein
Jamie Isenstein’s contribution is a parody of an old-fashioned radio ventriloquism show. On this episode of Inside Out with Jamie Isenstein, the artist interviews her own skeleton and her Suave Brand Skin Therapy Moisturizing Lotion, which proceeds to promote its book Surface Tension: The Changing Face of American Culture, which looks at the effects of plastic surgery on popular music.

Michael Smith
Michael Smith presents a collection of his audio works from the 1970s and 1980s. His selection of droll, minimal sketches are as much about timing, inflection and delivery as they are about witnessing the workings of one’s mind trying to make sense. On the radio, his mundane everyday observations replace a traditional talk show.

Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian presents Wanted, an audio work from 1995 (a collaboration with Julia Meltzer), in which an ad was placed in the Village Voice advertising a fictitious studio apartment for rent with the dimensions 6_9 x 7 feet, the size of a standard American jail cell. Eager to see the room, 117 callers left messages on her answering machine during the first 24 hours alone, providing personal details and eccentric requests in the form of disembodied voices.

Originally Broadcast: November 18, 2005, 9-10 pm, on WFMU 91.1FM