Football Soundscapes of Java
(2016)
author(s): Andy Fuller
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Singing, chanting and the identification of some genres of music with particular clubs is an essential part of football culture. Stadium atmosphere is created through a combination of elements – smoke bombs, crowd densities, lighting, banners, and shouting – but the most intense and focused manner is through the rehearsed and conducted chanting. The range, originality, and loudness of chanting is the lure for fan groups, and an essential element of ultra fandom (Doidge and Lieser 2013; Kytö 2011). The Pasoepati supporter group of Solo, for example, draws on a range of musical styles and supporter chants to create its own soundscape in which their support for Persis Solo is articulated. During Persis Solo games, the Manahan Stadium becomes a site in which a Persis Solo-Pasoepati soundscape is created; rival clubs, such as Persebaya and PSIM, and their respective fan groups, also articulate their own soundscapes. The chanting is a part of global football culture and mediated through local cultural practices and values. This paper explores the sonic rituals –chanting and singing – that create a sense of community, based around a football team and city.
LOVE LETTERS
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Joonas Lahtinen
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
LOVE LETTERS is an ongoing multimodal artistic research project exploring strategies and politics of participation, love letters as a form of communication, performativity of text and writing, intimacy and (imagined) boundaries between the "private" and the "public", forms of fandom, discourses on liveness, and the materiality and performativity of the LED ticker as an artistic medium.
PROJECT TIMELINE AND CONTRIBUTIONS
2024 // Lecture Performance "How to Facilitate Careful Listening and Non-Coercive Participation in Artistic Research? LED Tickers and Love Letter Writing as Research Tools", Forum Artistic Research // Symposium "Listen for Beginnings", Gustav Mahler Private University Klagenfurt
(Proceedings article forthcoming in 2025)
2023-2024 // Participatory installation at the Kunstzelle // WUK Vienna and Vienna Art Week 2023 festival
2020-2022 // Experiments within the frame of the artistic research project "TACTICS for a COLLECTIVE BODY" at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, PI's: Renata Epifanio Lamenza and Stef Assandri
2021 // video contributions LOVE LETTER TO JENNY HOLZER and WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? in the Facebook Lockdown Calendar of WUK performing arts Vienna