SONORA DECOLONIAL
2nd Sonic Arts and Decolonial Studies Workshop
Date
22 May 2013
Venue
Matadero Madrid
Location
El Taller
Price
Free admission
Category
Institution
Matadero Madrid
Organization: Grupo Matadero- Goldsmiths
"Decolonizando el conocimiento y las estéticas" / "Decolonizing Knowledge and Aesthetics"
Coordination: Sonic Arts Research & Decolonial Studies – SARDS leaders Susan Campos and Israel Marquez
The session is devoted to two works comprising cultural imaginations related to “Hispanicity”, “Latinism”, and “Westernism”; in addition to day-to-day violence, migration, narco-capitalism, mass media's influence on the construction of reality, the processual narrativity of especially complex migrant corpographies (landscape and territory as a body), different forms of colonialism in speech, “audiotopias”, new developments within music dramaturgy, frontier identities, and contemporary spirituality; as covered in El Niño by US composer John Adams (video-oratorio, 2000) and Únicamente la verdad (video-opera, 2008) by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz.
Line of research:
Post-colonial studies. Audiovisual studies. Human geography. Video art. Sonic arts. Art music. Musical dramaturgy. Musicology and ethnomusicology. Popular music studies. Performance and politics studies. Music and corpographies. Gender studies. Border Studies. Music curatorship. Trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies. Structure: roundtable, screening of selected fragments, and open debate.
Invited guest speakers:
Francisco Carballo (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Teresa Cascudo (Universidad de La Rioja, Research group studying Cultural Music History)
Iván López Munuera (Independent curator of “POP-POLITICS” at Centro Cultural 2 de Mayo, Madrid)
*Susan Campos Fonseca and Israel Marquez (SARDS coordinators), with the active participation of Grupo Matadero- Goldsmiths. More to come soon at: SARDS Workshops
"Decolonizando el conocimiento y las estéticas" / "Decolonizing Knowledge and Aesthetics"
Coordination: Sonic Arts Research & Decolonial Studies – SARDS leaders Susan Campos and Israel Marquez
The session is devoted to two works comprising cultural imaginations related to “Hispanicity”, “Latinism”, and “Westernism”; in addition to day-to-day violence, migration, narco-capitalism, mass media's influence on the construction of reality, the processual narrativity of especially complex migrant corpographies (landscape and territory as a body), different forms of colonialism in speech, “audiotopias”, new developments within music dramaturgy, frontier identities, and contemporary spirituality; as covered in El Niño by US composer John Adams (video-oratorio, 2000) and Únicamente la verdad (video-opera, 2008) by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz.
Line of research:
Post-colonial studies. Audiovisual studies. Human geography. Video art. Sonic arts. Art music. Musical dramaturgy. Musicology and ethnomusicology. Popular music studies. Performance and politics studies. Music and corpographies. Gender studies. Border Studies. Music curatorship. Trauma and violence transdisciplinary studies. Structure: roundtable, screening of selected fragments, and open debate.
Invited guest speakers:
Francisco Carballo (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Teresa Cascudo (Universidad de La Rioja, Research group studying Cultural Music History)
Iván López Munuera (Independent curator of “POP-POLITICS” at Centro Cultural 2 de Mayo, Madrid)
*Susan Campos Fonseca and Israel Marquez (SARDS coordinators), with the active participation of Grupo Matadero- Goldsmiths. More to come soon at: SARDS Workshops