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 that explores 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.
This year, 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 wove together into a temporary shared acoustic space where radio and sound art met social engagement.
Radio Elsewheres has been creating environments where artists, storytellers, and listeners can reflect on movement, memory, and displacement through dialogue and sound. Each iteration listens across geographies marked by genocide, displacement, and colonial violence, carrying these memories into a shared practice of listening and solidarity beyond borders. These concerns lie at the heart of Kuma’s mission as well, making our collaboration with Radio Elsewheres 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, new solidarities, and new insights into how art moves across places and communities. Working with sound has also opened new possibilities for Kuma, allowing us to explore listening as a form of knowledge and care; within Radio Elsewheres we have developed the Kuma Conversations series, inviting artists to share their stories, art practices, and reflections in response to the radio’s themes.
Working from Windsor, another border town like Bihać, offered Kuma a powerful new perspective. Experiencing the project from this context deepened our understanding of borders not only as lines of separation, but as spaces of listening, care, and transformation. It also marked an important step in Kuma’s ongoing effort to expand internationally and engage with places whose histories echo our own.
🔗 The Radio Elsewheres archive is available on the project’s website.
