radio (Wulaia)

Radiales understands Bahía Wulaia and Seno Ponsonby as a living archive, where landscape, wind, water, and rock record signals of cultural and natural information. The project interprets heritage as a dynamic process of transmission: the place becomes both receiver and transmitter of experiences, knowledge, and memories, able to connect with the community and transcend the physical and temporal limits of the territory.

During this year’s exploration, we will install a radio studio in the former Wulaia station and broadcast daily. We will continue the research in situ, offering listeners a perspective on different projects while experimenting with the radio format itself. Live transmission is proposed as a methodology: a way to release the research at the very moment it unfolds, opening the possibility for the process to be affected by the resonances and encounters that may arise in the territories it reaches.

BIG REANIMATION CEREMONY: Thu. Feb 5th from 15 to 19H CL / 19 – 23H EU (GMT +1)

Radio partners: Radio Tsonami [CL], Monteaudio [UY], Bauhaus FM, readio.earth [DE], Radiolibre [CO], Radius [US]

Transmission archive>>

On February 5th, 2026, as an extension of Radiales, Terra Ignota reanimated the former navy radio station at Bahía Wulaia, on Navarino Island, with a live broadcast shared through partner stations in Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Germany, and the United States. Conceived as a museum-antenna that preserves by transmitting, the broadcast proposes a permanent present in which the different lines of research coexist: whale refractions, accretion and cartographies, phonographies of the tide, walks, remote conversations, and field logs. Materials are layered and displaced so that meaning emerges from superposition, fragmentation, and dislocation. The timestamps below are entry points: the recording can be entered at any moment, as one tunes into a station already on air.

• 0:00 – Intro_Hello World
• 5:36 – Sounds of the house
• 8:15 – Accretion
• 15:39 – Log, 28 Jan
• 16:31 – TI presentation
• 19:50 – Ghost stories (Carlos Barria + Denis Chevallier)
• 27:50 – History of the radio station (Denis interview)
• 37:17 – Log, 29 Jan
• 37:47 – Whale Refractions
• 49:30 – Fuga
• 52:04 – Log, 30 Jan
• 53:35 – Walking talking
• 57:44 – Accretion and cartographies
• 1:06:00 – Remote connection with Raviv Ganchrow
• 1:12:00 – Log, 31 Jan
• 1:12:40 – Whale Refractions: underwater recording + walk
• 1:19:05 – Scanning walk
• 1:24:50 – Description (Claudia Augustat)
• 1:26:30 – Transmitting Nothofagus antarctica – Wulaia circuit
• 1:40:00 – Connecting with Raviv
• 1:54:00 – Log, 1 Feb
• 1:54:30 – Rhythmophones (phonographies of the tide)
• 2:01:08 – Plasticity
• 2:14:15 – Log, 2 Feb
• 2:14:49 – Iron Circle (Wulaia version)
• 2:26:19 – Log, 3 Feb
• 2:26:40 – Looking for whale bones
• 2:33:39 – Log, 4 Feb
• 2:34:07 – On walking
• 2:42:16 – Fugitive cartography
• 2:57:29 – Radioearth
• 3:17:30 – Framing