The free radio group LIGNA consists of the media theorists and radio artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michelsen, working in the broadcast station Freies Sender Kombinat, a free, non-commercial, local radio station in Hamburg. The group produces projects that think about the politics and potential of radio space. Their perspective is an optimistic one; that radio is one of the only free spaces left at a time our world is increasingly controlled by private concerns and the notion of public space and spontaneous gathering are becoming more and more threatened. They will explore these specific issues in relation to public space in ’s-Hertogenbosch.

Since 2002 LIGNA is developing concepts of how radio can intervene in public and often controlled spaces. These Radio Ballets are about collecting a public through radio, through a live transmission the group, in effect, generates a gathering and claims the public space.