My Radio Air Garden Coils, expanded sound art sculptures for the garden, designed from radio transmitter coils which I repurposed for their electroculture properties and will be part of The Garden and The Hedge Exhibition at Kulturhus Björkboda (Kubu) Finland from Thursday, June 5th, to August 31st.
KUBU’s inaugural summer programme The Garden and The Hedge seeks to collectively explore the position of soil, in our collective imaginaries and responsibilities. (phopo Ibi Feher at Windmill Hill City Farm Bristol)
Exhibition Dates:
Press: Preview Thursday 5th June 15.00
Opening Night: Thursday 5th June, 18.00
Exhibition dates are 5.6.–31.8.2025
Entrance fee for 10€
Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11-17, (Saturday 11-15), Mondays closed.
Private tours can be organised outside these hours, contact: info@kubu.fi
Kulturhus Björkboda
Smedskullavägen 3
25860 Björkboda
https://kubu.fi
Magz has rescaled copper radio transmitter coils as expanded sculpture, to help aid growth and use as plant support sculptures, riffing on electroculture techniques to raise awareness of air pollution and what we can grow to absorb it. Her innovative project repurposes radio and wireless technology in a similar way proponents of electroculture had whose experiments were germinated at the birth of wireless technology and electricity and led to the development of green houses.
“My radio air garden coils are expanded sound art sculptures for radio air gardens inspired by radio transmitter coils and repurposed for their supposed electroculture properties. I was fascinated by the radio antenna like structures and coils of this early French agricultural technique to aid growing crops and I have found them to help attract pollinators in my radio air garden prototypes, not only are they aesthetic as expanded sculpture, and a totem and nod to wireless history, but they are also useful plant support and have certainly helped my wallflower plants last longer they can also adapted for musical improvisation, in the future I would like to team up with a modern scientist to test results.”
Magz Hall’s Radio Air Gardens uses selected plants which are known to absorb air pollution and are also great air pollinators promoting planting to improve air quality. The garden links into the hundred-year long history of experimentation of using copper coils for growth, known as electro-culture which was never scientifically proven to work in the modern day, but interesting none the less as it has resurfaced in recent years via social media and wider interest in permaculture. She also produced a larger aeolian antenna riffing on the type of antenna used around 1882, the aim of which was to fertilize crops with atmospheric electricity, initially designed by Brother Paulin, director of Beauvais School of Agriculture who called it a “geomagnetifere.“ to improve plant grown without the use of chemical fertilisers and later French Inventor and engineer Justin Christofleau who grew an electric vegetable garden potager électrique, using “electro-magnetic terro-celestial” power. This first public edition of Radio Air Garden was planted up and installed at Windmill Hill City Farm to provide a place to share radio art activities, workshops and talks and to raise awareness of air pollution. The artist is open to wider collaborations.
More information about the project can be found at
https://magzhall.com/radio-air-garden/
Magz Hall 
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