Activity: Talk and presentation › Professional or public presentation › Popular
Description
Political art, according to Jacques Rancière’s theory, is not art with explicitly political content, but art that attempts to remove some instance from the realm of the visible and/or singable. Many improvising sound poets and vocal artists of the past century have used their voices in ways that evoke such responses (what Rancière calls „policing“). In this talk, I will discuss some of these (from Yoko Ono to Maggie Nicols to Paul Dutton) and the traditions from which they emerged, as well as some of these moments of „policing.“ Does improvised music fulfill one of its most important functions when it challenges listener:s to befriend forms of sonic and human difference that lie outside the symbolic orders they have naturalized?