For the third year in a row, Kuma International was proud to partner with Radio Elsewheres, an online and terrestrial low-power digital radio-art project exploring movement and displacement—whether voluntary or forced—of human and non-human bodies, languages, ideas, recipes, botany, musical tuning systems, and stories. The project is conceptualized, produced, and curated by artists Velibor Božović and Steve Bates, together with Kuma’s founder Claudia Zini.
In the fall of 2025, we travelled to Windsor, Canada, for the radio’s third iteration. [re.03] broadcast live for three weeks, 24/7, from within Velibor’s exhibition Elsewhere, on Record at Art Windsor–Essex (curated by Emily McKibbon), bringing together more than 60 artists and contributors from around the world. Field recordings, eco-acoustics, radio essays, live transmissions, testimonies, and sound compositions came together into a temporary shared acoustic space where radio and sound art met social engagement.
Through its different iterations, Radio Elsewheres has created spaces where artists, storytellers, and listeners can reflect on movement, memory, and displacement through sound and dialogue. Each edition listens across geographies marked by genocide, displacement, and colonial violence, carrying these histories into a shared practice of listening and solidarity beyond borders. These concerns resonate deeply with Kuma’s mission, making this collaboration a natural extension of our work with post-conflict art, lived memory, and communities shaped by forced movement.
Travelling with Radio Elsewheres since its beginnings in Bihać in 2023 has opened new ways of seeing and listening for us. Each iteration brings new conversations, solidarities, and reflections on how art moves across places and communities. Working with sound has also opened new directions within Kuma’s practice, allowing us to explore listening as a form of knowledge, care, and collective reflection. Within Radio Elsewheres, we have also developed the Kuma Conversations series, inviting artists to share their stories, artistic practices, and reflections in response to the themes explored through the radio project.
Working from Windsor, another border city shaped by histories of movement and division, offered Kuma a powerful new perspective. Experiencing the project from this environment deepened our understanding of borders not only as lines of separation, but also as spaces of listening, care, exchange, and transformation. It also marked an important step in Kuma’s ongoing effort to expand internationally and engage with places whose histories resonate with many of the questions at the heart of our work.
🔗 The Radio Elsewheres archive is available on the project’s website.
