This really great interview was recorded by Heinrich Deisl last summer when I played at donaufestival. It will be broadcast tonight:
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20260308/831278/People-Like-Us-im-PortraetSo.
8.3. , 20-21:00: The high art of collaging: PEOPLE LIKE US in Ö1 Time-tone portrait
As part of the new, three-hour time-tone on Sunday from 19:00 to 22:00 today with full program dedicated to International Women’s Day:
British media artist and radio producer Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us is a pioneer in audiovisual performances. Since 1991, she has been working with material found from films and old vinyl records and uses methods of collage and sampling to create sound and visual worlds that re-connect our media presence.
Profound archival knowledge, among other things, about British popular culture, on the one hand, and a distinctly humorous approach, on the other hand, are characterized by her creations. In 2006, she was the first artist to be given unlimited access to the BBC archives.
At donaufestival 2025, People Like Us presented the Austrian premiere of their current AV work “The Library of Babel”, based on the story of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, a principal representative of the so-called “. Magical realism.
In this radio portrait, we traverse her work for the Prelinger Film Archive, the archive of Britain’s first electro-acoustic composer Daphne Oram, collaborations with radio host John Peel and the band Negativland, and her ‘DO or DIY’ series for non-commercial radio WFMU
Vicki Bennet is a representative of artistic DIY – do it yourself. She follows the approach of “Sharity”: a combination of “share” and “charity” as well as the name of a current album by People Like Us.
Infos + Playlist: https://oe1.orf.at/…/831278/People-Like-Us-im-Portraet
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