The Hut

For the exhibition of their objects and Martin Vosahlo’s photographs depicting costumes from the workshop of their artistic group, Handa Gote prepared an adequate exhibition space – a tramp hut: a multifunctional residential building used during PQ 2015 as a miniature exhibition hall and kind of chillout room, built in the courtyard of the Ethnographic Museum in Prague. During the stay in the hut and throughout the duration of PQ 2015, Handa Gote and a team of friends and helpers were recording radical radiophonic composition Radio Laputa: From the Hut.

Handa Gote in the Radio Laputa team present a subjective recording from the Prague Quadrennial 2015, where the company members stayed in a hut built in the backyard of the Ethnographic Museum for the whole time of the Quadrennial. Here they conducted interviews with people, interspersed with sounds and fragments of live or reproduced music, or created a surrealistic reportage, partly destroyed or disturbed by additional layers of sound. A four-track Fostex tape recorder with a single cassette recorded all the audio events for over ten days using homemade microphones. The result is a radically deconstructed lo-fi radio documentary, an epic display of sonic anti-design. Interviews with famous and unknown people, random noise gusts, unexpected musical interjections, unsolicited proclamations, noise and hum, wow and flutter.

photography: Petr Kubín