« Desecration of Experience: Social Dissonance or Fascism »
With the confinement we are force to confront today’s reality and ourselves but it seems that we don’t have proper tools to do this. Our everyday experience is transforming rapidly and at the same time an increased sense of loneliness is creeping in. Our ways of communicating are becoming cold and distant. The future is uncertain and more people are looking for answers to make sense of themselves in this senseless reality. During this presentation I will talk about the connections between what I called social dissonance and the growing fascism. People engage more time online and extreme right wing groups and parties together with pro-conspiracy theories are benefiting from this. If there was already a very fragile liberal consensus, now this is crumbling. The desecration of individual experience comes now with a vengeance, a return to sacred values and simple answers for lost individuals to feel whole again and to have for a moment, a coherent understanding of the present and a horizon for the future.
Mattin is an artist from Bilbao –living in Berlin– working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental sonic artistic production through live performance, recordings and writing. Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of »freedom » and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre. Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between performers and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert situation, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship. In 2017 he completed a PhD at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of Ray Brassier. Along with Anthony Iles they edited the book Noise & Capitalism in 2009. In 2012 CAC Brétigny and Tuamaturgia published Unconsitituted Praxis, a book collecting his writing plus interviews and reviews from performances that he has been part of. Both books are available online. Urbanomic will publish soon his book Social Dissonance. Mattin took part in documenta14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017.
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CETTE CONFÉRENCE A LIEU UNIQUEMENT EN DIRECT A LA RADIO
à 18h30 sur https://p-node.org
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REFLEXIO
Cycle de conférences arts sonores et sound studies, organisé par l’université Paris 8, les Instants Chavirés et Synesthésie – MMaintenant en partenariat avec π-Node.
dirigé par Matthieu Saladin
Toute propagation du son s’accompagne d’une réflexion acoustique, dès lors que l’onde sonore rencontre une surface qui en partie l’absorbe et en partie la réfléchit. Dérivant de ce principe, le cycle Reflexio propose une série de conférences où les paroles d’artistes, de musiciens et de chercheurs s’offrent à la réflexion partagée, dans des moments d’échange où les énoncés de chacun et chacune deviennent autant d’échos d’échos.
De la question du genre dans les musiques expérimentales aux pratiques sonores brutes, en passant par le field recording antinaturaliste, l’écoute noise, les bourdons de la contestation, ou encore les sonorités de l’invisible, ces conférences abordent quelques-unes des préoccupations qui animent, aujourd’hui, les pratiques et la recherche dans les arts sonores et les sound studies.
Avec
03.11 : Catherine Guesde, Chaos et ordres de la noise : à l’écoute des formes émergentes
17.11 : Marie Canet, Les bourdons de la contestation
01.12 : Simon Ripoll-Hurier, There is noise
12.01 : Mattin, Desecration of Experience: Social Dissonance or Fascism
09.02 : Deborah Walker, Charlotte Moorman : une violoncelliste dans l’avant-garde
16.03 : Marc Baron, Et nous neigerons sur nos pas, un décryptage