TRACK 3: SOUND AND VOICE

This track is organized in three interdisciplinary sessions that explore and reactivates (1) the histories of the political sound, voice, and sound, and the construction of memory; (2) it addresses the urban and affective politics; and (3) it explores the boundaries of the spoken word. These interdisciplinary track sessions involve scholars, curators, and artists seeking to explore and reactivate the histories of the political sound, of politics and sound, the power of spoken words, the construction of memory, within the political and contemporary art practices, both through academic papers, exhibitions, activations, and performances.

Track Chair:

Luz María Sánchez Cardona, Professor. Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Session 1:

This session focuses on academic papers or papers of art practice as research, that deepens into the performative arts, political influx, and voice as an aesthetic trigger. Performative actions develop the construction of a physical discourse and the [self]construction of a multi present space in which the community interpellates in the individual and collective imaginary.

Chair:

Luz María Sánchez Cardona, Professor. Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Co-Chairs:

Luis Sotelo Castro, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance, Concordia University.
Iris Garrelfs, Co-Head Sound Practice Research Group (SPR) and Editor Reflections on Process in Sound, Goldsmiths University of London.

Session 2:

This session explores sonic intervention as an intensive encounter for the transformation of urban environments and human experiences. Sonic intervention is understood as any action/event–including performative acts, installations, choreography, and sounding sculpture–that reconfigures habitual urban expressions. As sites-of-encounter, sonic interventions are considered acts of affective politics that seek new bodily and imaginative responses for the becoming-other of individual and social bodies.

Chair:

Luz María Sánchez Cardona, Professor. Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Co-Chairs:

Jordan Lacey, Research Fellow, School of Design, RMIT University, Australia.
Polly Stanton, Lecturer Master of Media program, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University.

Session 3:

This session explores language, power, voice, gender, and race, through sound. Our relationship to sound reveals how power operates within inequality contexts. Linguistic actions within the community can become rebellious and revolutionary, forming empowerment systems that use standardized means such as sound technologies as tools of resistance.

Chair:

Luz María Sánchez Cardona, Professor. Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

Co-Chairs:

Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Binghamton; Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog.
Dolores Inés Casillas, Associate Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

TRACK 3: SOUND AND VOICE

Art Practices and Politics

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Session 1:

Performative arts, voice, and construction of memory

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Session 2:

Sonic Intervention, The Urban and Affective Politics

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Session 3:

Spoken Boundaries: Voice studies + Gender/Sexuality + Race/Origin

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