given birth to strong waves
Broadcast on Montez Press Radio
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Tune into Montez Press Radio on 27 November at 12pm for given birth to strong waves, an online live listening session as part of the public programmes accompanying a cut became an opening.
In collaboration with Montez Press Radio, given birth to strong waves is a listening session tracing the collective beginnings and subsequent individual trajectories of the four original members of Hang on the Box (挂在盒子上), China's pioneering all-female punk band formed in Beijing in 1998. Taking its title from a lyric in ‘You Hate Me But I Love You’, from the band's third album No More Nice Girls, given birth to strong waves begins with Hang on the Box's early recordings before moving through the distinct musical and artistic practices that emerged after their time together. Through these shifting sounds, it considers what persists, transforms, and takes on new life beyond a shared beginning.
Following the live broadcast, given birth to strong waves will be available to listen to for free on Montez Press Radio until 11 December, while the exhibition is on view.
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform. We were founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. We’re drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience.