Celestial Radio is a radio station broadcasting from a crystal ship, The Celeste, its surface coated in sixty thousand mirror tiles. During July, the Celeste will anchor in the harbours of Margate and Folkestone in southern England from where it will broadcast, on 87.7FM, a specially recorded soundtrack.
Inspired by the legendary final broadcast in 1974 from the Mi Amigo, one of Radio Caroline’s ships, as well as the last, ill-fated voyage across the Atlantic by conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, Celestial Radio seeks answers to life’s big questions, making audible the invisible.
Taking as its theme ‘Aspirations, Hopes and Dreams’ the soundtrack has been made in response to the coastal landscape of Kent and the history of painters, poets, writers and other visionary thinkers who have populated the landscape at different times.
Celestial Radio has already visited Whitstable Harbour, and is due to visit Margate Harbour from 5–8 July and Folkestone Harbour from 19–20 July, during the Folkestone Triennial.
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