Invitation PhD events Gabriel Paiuk

6 - 10 October: Sound installation Focus 
10 October 20h00: Concert 
11 October 13h45: PhD Defence 
12 October 15h30: Symposium

You are cordially invited to the public defence and artistic presentation by Gabriel Paiuk of the research project 'Mutable Audible - An Operative Ontology of the Sound Image’. On October 11 at 13h45, Gabriel Paiuk will defend his dissertation in the Academy Building of Leiden University. 

Gabriel Paiuk’s project Mutable Audible investigates how that which is heard – the audible – is formed as inherent to material, collective and technical circumstances. The audible is conceived as not exclusively bound to the private realm of the mind or the will of the individual listener, but as dependent on the diverse operations that inform how a sensorial engagement with sound takes place.

To account for the mutable character of the audible, Paiuk postulates a novel concept of sound image built upon the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. This notion is unhinged from previous uses of the term, namely those that define it as a visual surrogate or a mental representation. Rather, the image is conceived as a node in a cycle of functions that articulate a metastable relationship between sensing agent and milieu. The result of this reconsideration is twofold. On the one hand, the sound image is postulated as a tool to address the audible as a variable locus of engagement with the world. On the other, it unsettles assumptions that keep the image anchored to its traditional visual-centric forms and techniques and drives its transformation to encompass the realm of sound. 

Four artistic works constitute the experimental backbone of the dissertation, that explore how the audible is variably produced. In this context, the relational character of sound is reassessed, not anchored in the presumed stability of listening subjects and the projection of sound identities, but emerging within collective protocols, material configurations and technical infrastructures in which listening unfolds.

Promotores
Prof.dr. Marcel Cobussen
Prof.dr. Julia Kursell

Co-promotor
Peter Ablinger

Doctorate committee
Prof.dr. Ana María Ochoa Gautier
Prof.dr. Anke Haarmann
Dr. Cécile Malaspina
Bill Dietz

PhD Defence Gabriel Paiuk
11 October 2023 at 13h45
Academy Building, Leiden University
Rapenburg 73, Leiden

On the days prior to the defence, three of the artistic works, developed by Gabriel Paiuk as part of his dissertation, will be presented publicly.

Sound installation
On October 6^th, 8^th and 9^th the sound installation Focus will be exhibited at The Grey Space in the Middle, Paviljoensgracht 20-24, Den Haag, 14:00 till 20:00.
On October 10^th Focus will be open to the public, 15:00 to 17:00 and 18:00 to 20:00. Read more: Sound Installation 'Focus' (researchplatform.art)

Concert
On October 10^th, the works The Construction of an Imaginary Acoustic Space­ and Sound Theory (The Clouds) will be performed by the New European Ensemble and cellist Arne Deforce at the Conservatoriumzaal in Amare – Spuiplein 150, Den Haag, at 20:00. Read more: Concert in the context of 'Mutable Audible' (researchplatform.art)

Symposium

As an addendum to the doctoral Promotion a brief symposium will take place on October 12th, comprising presentations by Colombian sound scholar and ethnomusicologist Ana María Ochoa Guatier (Tulane University) and French philosopher Cécile Malaspina (Collége International de Philosophie), follow by a round table discussion.

The work of Ana María Ochoa Gautier, primarily articulated in her work Aurality – Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Colombia, is a fundamental landmark in articulating how listening unfolds inherently to singular cosmologies and how this occurs within non-western indigenous communities. Ochoa elaborates on how diverse “ontologies and epistemologies of the acoustic” are proper of “audile techniques, in which sound appears simultaneously as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for constructing knowledge about it” (Ochoa 2014, “Aurality”, p.3) Cécile Malaspina is the author of An Epistemology of Noise and principal translator of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. In her work, the notion of noise is explored in its emancipatory potential as understood across a range of realms, not tied to the domains of the acoustic or the visual but as a fundamental category for the reevaluation of how theories of knowledge can be articulated.

This event will take place on October 12^th, 15:30 at Studio L – New Music Lab on the 6^th floor of Amare. Read more: Mini-Symposium 'Mutable Audible' with Ana María Ochoa Gautier and Cécile Malaspina (researchplatform.art)