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​Not for the radio?

1/6/2017

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Is there a difference here with the on rather than the for?
 
I was reminded of Ligna’s Radio Ballet.
 
This description taken from their blog
 
A Radio Ballet is a radio play produced for the collective reception in certain public places. It gives the dispersed radio listeners the opportunity, to subvert the regulations of the space. 
 
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The Radio Ballet brought back these excluded gestures of deviant behavior into the main station. Around 500 participants - usual radio listeners, no dancers or actors – were invited to enter the station, equipped with cheap, portable radios and earphones. By means of these devices they could listen to a radio program consisting of a choreography suggesting permitted and forbidden gestures (to beg, to sit or lie down on the floor etc.). These suggestions were inter-rupted by reflections on the public space and on the Radio ballet itself. 
 
Where is this dance taking place?
 
It is in public spaces in the listening to the radio transmission. The choreography is distributed through the radio but isn’t taking place there. You participate through the radio and you watch in specific locations (that used to be public space, but are now privately owned).  Could you also listen to the dance taking place on the radio without engaging in some way with what is happening in the other ‘public’ (non-public) space? Leipzig, main railway station. Or Hamburg station for instance, as with the first performance.
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