The Radical Flu Trailer

In this second of Rose Hammer's National Episodes: The Radical Flu: A Radio Radio Play, time is turned back to the year 1918. Norway is experiencing the worldwide epidemic called the Spanish flu (H1N1 virus), the last shot fired in World War I is imminently near, and Russia is well on her way into her first year of the revolution. In the radio play The Radical Flu, we follow a group of artists, intellectuals, feminists, clergy and other authority figures during the first year of the plague in various places in Oslo (then Kristiania).

Show Notes

Rose Hammer is an artist persona comprised of a collective group of individuals. Evolving and changing, Rose Hammer is, in no particular order: Kim Svensson, Emilie Birkeland, Alma Braun, Niels Munk Plum, Emil Andersson, Alessandro Marchi, Stacey de Voe, Nora Joung, Helle Lindskog, Ole-Petter Arneberg, Per-Oskar Leu and Dora García; with the collaboration of Samir Kandil and Jan Mech.

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What is The Radical Flu?

"National Episodes: The Radical Flu: A Radio Play" is part of a series of art productions inspired by often unknown aspects related to key events in Norwegian history. The series is produced by the collective artist persona Rose Hammer for osloBIENNALEN.