Sound Dramaturgies:

repoliticizing performance

Authors

  • Angeliki Poulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • He- Manolis Manousakis

Keywords:

Sound Art, Dramaturgy, Performance, Installation, Digital Art

Abstract

The paper explores the potential of sound to repoliticize theatre and performance. By examining the activity and dramaturgical practices of the multimedia art collective Medea Electronique (Greece), it highlights contradictions of contemporary art, particularly the continuous transition from ‘everything is political’ to ‘no, not everything is political’ and vice versa. From a post-Brechtian perspective, the political function of art lies in preserving the diverse sensibilities at the core of art’s autonomy. This entails avoiding that art be reduced to a post-political gesture or aligning it too closely with everyday aestheticized experiences.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Angeliki Poulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Angeliki Poulou Assistant Professor in the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema at the University of Athens, specializing in History and Theory of Contemporary Art and New Media Art. Her theoretical and curatorial work focuses on contemporary art, with an emphasis on the theory of art/technology and new forms of the performative. 

He- Manolis Manousakis

Born in Athens in Greece (1975). He gained his footing in live theater while in Chicago Illinois. Prior to his sojourn in Chicago, was deeply engaged in both independent avant-garde theater and in the popular theater of his native country. Since that time, he has rarely been without a film or stage project and as a result has embraced a wide variety of stylistic influences.
He works as a composer and sound designer since 1998. His works include compositions for small ensembles, solos, electroacoustic compositions, video art and multimedia shows. He has also composed the original music for theater shows, documentaries, tv series, short films and theater dance shows. As a sound designer he has worked both in feature film projects, documentaries, advertising, theater and short films. He has also recorded extensively the landscape of Greece and has been involved in major sound projects like the SoundscapesLandscapes a sound walk in Athens Greece in the neighborhood of Neos Kosmos and Keramikos.
He is a co-founder of Medea Electronique synergy of Artists and Koumaria Residency.

Downloads

Published

2024-12-20

How to Cite

Poulou, A., & Manousakis , M. (2024). Sound Dramaturgies:: repoliticizing performance. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(4). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/137698

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 4 (2024): Out./Dez. 2024

Section

Sound in Performance

License

Copyright (c) 2024 Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Readers are free to transfer, print out and use the articles published in the Journal, as long as there is always explicit mention to the author(s) and to the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença and as long as there is no alteration of the original work. Any other use of the texts needs to be approved by the author(s) and by the Journal. By submitting an article to the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença and having it approved, the authors agree to assign, without compensation, the following rights to the Journal: the rights of first publication and the rights to redistribute the article and its metadata to the indexing and reference services that the editors deem appropriate.

Licença Creative Commons This journal use a Licença de Atribuição Creative Commons.

Most read articles by the same author(s)