A field is to play. Enacting mental images of the soundscape
| Autor: | Paolo Patelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Soundscape
Social Psychology Multimedia business.industry 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Social constructionism Urban theory Visual arts Digital media Public art Mental representation Sociology Architecture business 050703 geography computer Mental image |
| Zdroj: | Emotion, Space and Society. 25:44-53 |
| ISSN: | 1755-4586 |
| Popis: | The article mainly focuses on the presentation of “A field is to play”, a collaborative and interactive installation dedicated to the recording and the reenacting of the relationship between the inhabitants of Mazama, WA – a small community in the USA – and their sonic environment. Through multimedia local interactions, enaction and emplacement, the project aimed to give expression to the many, individual and socially constructed, mental images of the local soundscape. A physical, interactive audio installation presented excerpts from individual interviews, emplacing and activating such mental representations, to merge them back into the environment. The artistic intervention was conceived as a localised process, acting through an engagement with publics. The soundscape itself, and its mental representations, were manipulated both as relational media, and subject matter. The presentation is preceded by three sections that introduce the theoretical context at the origin of the installation starting from urban theory in architecture, to the role of public art up to the discussion around the topic of soundscape, in a path from the most general issues to those more related to the specific character of the installation. The conclusion pulls together the theoretical and the applied sections and offers some response to the questions raised in the introduction. Through a theoretical engagement with the installation, it asks the reader to rethink the relationship between sound, memory and mental images. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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