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Welcome to the Jungle reveals how Freedom Rock was used as a weapon in the U.S. invasion of Panama at the end of 1989 – in what was a test case for American wars to come. This is the expanded version of the episode for the Documenta 14 series, which is included in Dani Gal’s installation Panama City, Christmas 1989 from 2017.

You can hear Welcome to the Jungle by visiting the artist's website: https://dani-gal.com/

Dani Gal is a Jerusalem born, Berlin based artist whose work takes the form of films, installations and sound. Underlying all these is an intensive research practice that zeroes in on often-forgotten moments of historical transformation to reveal the shaping of cultural memory and ideology.

As the transmissions unfold, we hear a full spectrum of Gal’s approaches to making art for radio: from selected episodes of Different Time Different Place Different Pitch, which were commissioned by Documenta 14 and realized in collaboration with Achim Lengerer on SAVVY RADIO in 2017; to the two-part radio play entitled Vertigious commissioned for the podcast series On Certain Groundlessness – Navigating Dizziness Together in 2023.
These broadcasts invite us – as embodied listeners – to consider the relationship of political events to acoustic events. They can be understood as both historical documentaries and musical compositions in the tradition of musique concrète.

This weekly series of radio broadcasts is presented by the Belkin Gallery and The Polygon Gallery on CiTR 101.9 FM in tandem with two exhibitions featuring work by the the artist. For more information visit belkin.ubc.ca and thepolygon.ca