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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOUNDSCAPE
CONFERENCE
abstract
Maria ANDUEZA A new kind of audience: the citizen of the work.Nowadays, the sound in relationship with the context stirs
up interest from different perspectives. If we focus in the city, the soundscapes
are composed from the sounds of the everyday life and in some cases by those
coming from artistic interventions. This is the result of the introduction of
new media art in the realm of public art. In the case of the artistic sonic
intervention it opens in the public space a sonorous oasis in the middle of
the cacophony of the cities where the sonic material appears clearly to the
perception of the citizens by creating a contrast with the context or simply
by adjusting at the quotidian situation. In my presentation I propose to move
forward in the analytical discourse of our sonorous environments, to analyze
their aesthetical sonorous context from the point of departure of Sound Installations
in the Public Space and, through the perspective of the citizens' perception.
That is, explore those sonic interventions conceived by the artists in the context
of the city from the perspective of the individuals that perceive the aesthetic
environment without loosing their condition of citizens.
Thus, moving the speech away from the traditional concept of audience, it will
be introduced the expression «citizen of the work» to refer an individual,
walking through the city, whose attention is caught by surprise during his or
her everyday life. The citizen is not a specialist viewer, nor a trained audience
that approaches the artwork, but someone walking through the city that discovers
the elements of the artwork and, in doing so, activates his aesthetic perception
of the space. In some sense they turn into dwellers of the work. This factor
provokes a new relationship of the citizenship with the urban environment and
its complexity. This relationship, which is produced through the sounds in the
area of our concerns, represents a radical change in the articulation of the
artwork in the public space and also in the discourses that it generates in
connection with the urban environment and in this case with the acoustic ecology.
Bio
María Andueza (b. 1978) is a Spanish artist and researcher based in Madrid.
She got a Ph.D by her research on Urban Sound Installations. His artistic and
theoretical work addresses concepts like the social character of the space and
the site specific worked through the sound in the urban environment. As a researcher
she has participated in international congresses and, as an artist has intervened
different public spaces. Since she got her degree in Arts she has combined her
research with other jobs such as cultural mediator in media art, set designer
in a TV channel, cultural manager in a contemporary art gallery or university
teacher on Sound Art. She has received different grants in her professional
career and was for two years (2008-2010) researcher-in-residence at the Residencia
de Estudiantes of Madrid, a historical place in the cultural context of Spain.
In 2010 she obtained the Munch Extraordinary Chair to work at the Bergen National
Academy of the Arts and the Bergen Center for Electronic Art (Norway). At the
moment she is establishing contacts with different institutions to be a postdoctoral
research fellow.
More information in her blog: www.mariaandueza.wordpress.com