Event details
Professor Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University)
This event will take place via Zoom at this link.
The impossibility of defining sound art has enabled an accumulation of academic commentary in the areas of criticism and theory. For historians, however, the shaky emergence of the concept presents sharper problems of method. This talk attempts to clarify some of these methodological issues by sketching the aesthetic and historical conditions that made possible the formation of the sound art concept, however ambiguous it may be. How is such a concept articulated in history? How does creative practice relate to the articulation of concepts? What had to be displaced to make room for new practices associated with sound? How can a historian account for multiple genealogies of a concept in a global context?
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