Audio Foundation (Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa) presents my residency and solo exhibition I was in this long dark tunnel. It considers the opportunities for social organisation and cultural connection offered by pirate radio platforms.

I have heard there used to be hundreds; turning the dial was a walk in a dense jungle. Again, now, there is a night and day to speaking and listening. The other-places, these fulcrums for pleasure, are here, tiny beaches beneath the street. But they move around.

Wireless and lawless, mobile territories flood the FM band. Please visit this place-time where the breaks are poorly beat-matched but plentiful. It’s easy to cut em up, hard to put back together. I’ll need your help. Please take one of these Walkmans (you’ll need it) and make a tape of your trip, I would like to hear it.

As a “long time listener first time caller in Tamaki Makaurau”, I hope to “fuck around and find out how many breaks broadcasting at how many frequencies it takes to flood the bandwidth.” For this exhibition and throughout their residency, sanctioned, small-throw transmitters will be hacked, empowered, ‘upgraded’ to mid-throw.

Join us in celebrating FM dials flooded with one long continuous break, a rave that never sees dawn.