"We've been planning this for so long. I'm going to tell you the whole story, let me know if it bores you," PS1 director Alanna Heiss says to Artinfo.com, describing WPS1 radio station's upcoming plans for live broadcasts from the Venice Biennale. But how could it possibly be boring? Heiss and her crew - including the station's Managing Director David Weinstein and a team of engineers - will have a "broadcast boat," shaped like a pagoda, that fits 150 hundred people, that will be docked near the Giardini at the Riva Dei Sette Martiri.

Serving as correspondents for the station will be artists Janet Cardiff, Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin, as well as Gea Politi, a writer and curator, and daughter of Flash Art magazine publisher Giancarlo Politi. These roving reporters will be deployed to Venice's many events, and of course to the exhibitions themselves, and will be serving up interviews and other on-the-spot material.

All of this will be available to Biennale-goers on a local Venice station. The usually internet-based WPS1 is collaborating with a station located on the FM dial at 99.1. (Programming will still be available on the website.) To boot, Heiss and company are giving away 10,000 tiny radios, each shaped like and only a bit larger than a bottle cap, with support from Radio Friends of WPS1, which includes Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, David Teiger, and Agnes B., along with the international council of MoMA and special assistance from PS1's board of directors. (Bloomberg is the major sponsor for WPS1's broadcasts.)

Though the full programming for the six days June 6 to 12 has not yet been fully planned, Heiss says the station will also broadcast what she sees as "mini sound pavilions" corresponding to the actual pavilions in the Giardini. Heiss will be giving voice to areas of the world that are underrepresented at Venice, such as the Middle East, and will be collaborating with gallery owner and curator Peter Nagy on projects with the Indian pavilion, new this year.

Heiss herself is no stranger to the kind of happy pandemonium that generally ensues during the Biennale's party-packed, ultra-hectic opening week, and is determined to capture its spirit in the broadcasts. A Biennale veteran, she served as the Commissioner of the 1986 American Pavilion at the Venice Bienniale, working with the pavilion's curator, Henry Geldzahler, to present Isamu Noguchi.