The Last Servants on 88.8 FM

A broadcast on 88.8FM inside The Nova Tuskhut

Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:00am to Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 5:00pm

 

 

 

The Last Servants

January 17 - 25th, 2025

 

Book a museum visit to tune-in.

$7 Suggested Donation / Free for VPES Members

 

The Last Servants, a radio play set in Antarctica of the future, is broadcast on 88.8FM in The Nova Tuskhut during regular open hours. Visitation includes a complimentary QSL postcard, confirming receipt of the radio transmission.

 

No city. The roads stopped flying over my head. No road. A hill is a mountain. No windows, just views. Even weakened perspective comforts me now and the lantern light is the same as the sun's gleam. The paths are marked with incisions; wind scatters quickly. The scissors of reason are always open and ready to rest, even forever.

 

The Last Servants debuted at the Velaslavasay Panorama in participation with LOOKOUT.FM on November 15th, 2024 (more info here) with creator Nicolás Carcavilla in attendance, leading a 35mm slide presentation that accompanied the FM simulcast. From November 15th thru December 27th, 2024, The Last Servants was broadcast on The Nova Tuskhut's radio, with a printed libretto to read, and now the broadcast is extended thru the end of January 2025.

I am static. I don't sleep, I deactivate. I don't work, I wander. I don't tell myself lies or fragile truths. I don't want to get better.

 

The Last Servants

Performed by Kenneth Welsh (Twin Peaks, The Day After Tomorrow, Twilight Zone)
Written by José Badía Berner
Based on a short story by Nicolás Carcavilla
Original score and sound design by Nicolás Carcavilla
RUNNING TIME: around 40 minutes

In the remains of a dystopic Earth, a once-mighty world dictator makes a radical choice. He transfers his consciousness into a scouting robot, with the aim of propelling himself to the distant exoplanet AG309, foreseeing the expansion of his sovereignty. However, destiny has other plans for him, leading the robot to plummet onto the icy terrain of Antarctica. There, in the solitude of the frozen wasteland, the fallen overlord finds himself confronted by profound reflections—wandering upon the nature of consciousness, existence, the frailty of the human form, and the elusive meaning of mortality.

~ In the memory of Ken Welsh (1942–2022) ~