Art In Action interview - Artist Robert Ostertag

Free City Radio

On the October 2024 edition of Art in Action we hear from artist Robert Ostertag based in the Bay Area. In this exchange Robert speaks on a series of creative sound works addressing the intersections of contexts of political violence and efforts to create artistic space to address the profound injustices at play. The specific pieces that Robert speaks about are "Sooner or Later" about the genocidal right wing US backed death squads in in El Salvador, the piece working with the sound of a grieving mother burying her child. Robert also speaks on a piece about the 1990s wars in the Balkans, "Yugoslavia Suite" and speaks on visiting occupied Palestine and work with the Israeli anti occupation group Breaking the Silence. Stefan produces this monthly artist interview series, Art in Action, that broadcasts monthly on Radio AlHara in regular programming on the first Friday of each month at 4:30pm in Bethlehem, Palestine and 9:30am eastern time. This series also airs on the third Friday of each month at 11am on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal (ckut.ca) and on the second Thursday of each month on CJLO 1690 AM at 8am also in Montreal.