Sonorous assemblages. Speculating a metallurgical aesthetic of airport media art

Autor: Marek Wojtaszek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 20004214
2000-4214
DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2024.2354553
Popis: ABSTRACTAs airport terminals continue to expand, the level of noise steadily increases, and yet when we think of an airport lounge, we tend to recall an image rather than a sound. Simultaneously, modern airport terminal design incorporates sound media artworks that appear to be adding to the existing cacophonic soundscape. Understanding that sound plays a formative—albeit often nonconscious—role in the shaping of our sense perception of (airport) space, in this article—resorting to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s radical empiricism—I speculate an immanent and metallurgical approach towards airport sound art, which puts forth aesthetic experience as essentially entangled with airport space and the sensorium. Engaging with two of an American artist, Christopher Janney’s airport sound and visual installations, the article posits sonorous assemblages to explore a sonic aesthetic of airport experience. In probing the boundaries of routinized perception, it thus forays into an extraperceptual dimension of spatial aesthetics.
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