Hello,

I’m Tata Frenkel, artist, and this is my website where I occasionally add stuff about my artistic practice and more. I will use lots of “I I I I I” in this text, because there was a need to write smth about I. I probably have lots of experience in education, specifically teaching while hosting workshops – I’ve worked a lot with children, from 4 years of age, till 90 maybe. I’ve been teaching in museums, universities, festivals and just art/ culture spaces. It’s usually about radio acoustic music and instruments, media art, radio stuff again etc. Well, I still do that, currently a bit less, cause I was loosing my voice some time ago, but it’s ok now – if you are interested in my edu formats, write an email. So I’ve been teaching in various places, but many of them had super bad administration, way of doing things, or were severely underpaid, or conservative in their ways teams. So I quit it all. Until I established my own educational platform, which is finally – experimental, alternative, feminist, creative, inclusive, I create a setting where arts meet sciences, but also meets tea – because this platform is also a tea project. Everything happens around the gong fu tea preparation setting. I run a fun instagram page @chaiculator.

I do play music, as a thereminist, it is a love hate relationship, I mean with the instrument. Majority of my art practice and research is dedicated to defetishising or demystifying this technology, but also other radio acoustic instruments. I love radio acoustic instruments, I build them, research them as tools in communication beyond applied usage – in music, radio art, etc. Can I say that my visual works are related to limits of articulation, communication physics, health and care? This text was just me loudly typing on my keyboard, I haven’t read it yet.

So I co-run a radio station, or rather a radio project “Radio Atatakai” that is focused on radio art. The website: https://radio-atatakai.com  Anyway, right now it is online, but it’s a safe space for sure. My portfolio is available here, but if you look at it, make sure to read it also. Anyway, enough!