Svetlana Maraš: Where is my sound art?

V majski izdaji platforme RADAR predvajamo posnetek performativnega predavanja Svetlane Maraš v okviru Living Archiva feminističnega kuratorskega kolektiva Red Min(e)d, ki se je zgodil prejšnji teden v MoTa pointu.

Svetlana Maras (1985) is composer and sound artist from Serbia. She studied composition at University of Art in Belgrade, Faculty of Music. In 2010, she had a fellowship in composition at Bang on a Can Summer Institute. Svetlana received her MA at Helsinki Media Lab - Aalto University and she was employed at the same department as a research assistant. Abstract of her thesis was published by the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.Svetlana works at the intersection of experimental music, sound art and new media. Her work encompasses wide variety of forms - live electronic music, performance, interactive sound installations, electro-acoustic compositions, radiophonic pieces, web applications, music for film and theatre. Svetlana is a well experienced improviser - her virtuosic use of laptop (and digital sound more broadly) has been recognized by many and has brought her numerous international collaborations and performances.Her work has been presented at venues and festivals such as  Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), A38 (Budapest), Ausland (Berlin), Kunstradio-Radiokunst, Radio Belgrade, ICMC (New York), UCSD (San Diego) and Orpheus Institute (Ghent) among others. She is a member of the ensemble Studio6, member and co-founder of the improvE collective. 

Svetlana Maraš: http://www.svetlanamaras.com/

Svetlana Maraš: Where is my sound art? (participative performance and lecture)

Participative performance of the piece Pendulum music (2010) is followed by the comparative analysis of this work and Pendulum music made in 1968 by Steve Reich. This introduces us to the works of conceptual artists and composers from the 1960s’s where we search for the origins of what we recognize today under the term “sound art”. Following the idea of early experimental music as an opposing force to traditional understanding of musicality at large, we are exposed to the examples from history that depict the increasing urge of introducing extra-musical elements in music, which was a driving force for the emergence of sound art.

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The Red Min(e)d are Danijela Dugandžić Živanović, Katja Kobolt, Dunja Kukovec and Jelena Petrović. Coming from different backgrounds (feminist theory, contemporary art, cultural production and activism) and from different places Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Munich), they live and work moving from one place to an other, on the crossroad of common understanding and methods of researching, (re)presenting, curating and mediating contemporary art. Challenged by each others differences, energies and interests the Red Min(e)d works in the constant (re)questioning, exploring and developing possible ways of better understanding, visibility and feasibility of feminist art and art by women artists from the (post)Yugoslav space and beyond.

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