Medellín, Colombia, 2001. Heavy battles are taking place at Comuna 13 in the west part of the city, where urban militias of the FARC guerrilla are fighting with the Colombian army and paramilitaries creating the scenario of an urban war. In a programme of the radio, that dramatic situation is discussed and a witness of the events is called in by phone to share her observations and encounters with the audience at HKW. The performance is a play with fiction and non-fiction, hardly distinguishable through the radio, as a means to construct reality and to explore the potential of that liminal space to re-shape the narrative and perception of historic events. Radio, as a media deeply rooted in Latin American society, was and is used to impose narratives about events and shape a uniform opinion about them during civil wars, dictatorships, and social uprisings. 

“War call: Cartographies of Conflict” is a project that compiles and experiments with a sound archive of political events where audio recording and radio broadcasting have played an important role in the development of conflicts in Latin America. An archive, gathered by Esteban Ferro, brings together audio from several countries and contains descriptions of a series of events and the sonic circumstances of the voice that narrates them.