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Risking Radio Nights
Rachel Lois Clapham discusses David Blandy’s Artangel commissioned project Radio Nights that aimed to uncover aspects of nocturnal London that would otherwise be invisible to regular city dwellers.
Radio Nights was commissioned by Artangel in 2005 and launched at their inaugural Interaction Programme ‘London Nights’. Based on HV Morton’s 1926 publication, ‘The Nights of London’, ‘London Nights’ aimed to uncover aspects of nocturnal London that would otherwise be invisible to regular city dwellers. Defining nocturnal London as a community, and using it to launch Artangel’s Interaction programme, was a knowing move on behalf of then Artangel producer Cathy Haynes. It was a bid to establish a more abstract notion of community, one conceived of as relation or network, rather than social, physical, demographic or geographic location. The choice of subject was also an opportunity for funders, artists and subsequent audiences to encourage thinking on community that, according to Haynes, “avoided ghettoising individuals or encouraging participants to over-identify with a particular experience, problem or umbrella group; one which they might move in and out of at any point in their lives”. This conceptual field of approach toward the notion of community is sympathetic to the fact that Artangel, despite being London-based, is a...
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