Mark Peter Wright

°1979
en

Mark Peter Wright is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of critical theory, contemporary art and education. His practice explores the relationship between humans, animals, environments and their associated technologies of capture: critically and playfully generating debate through installation, performance and sound. He is a Reader in Critical Sound Practice at the University of the Arts, London. His book Listening After Nature: Field Reocrding, Ecology, Critical Practice is published by Bloomsbury (2022/23).

http://markpeterwright.net

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  • Post-Natural Sound Arts (2017) author(s): Mark Peter Wright published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    This article argues for a new critical perspective called “Post-Natural Sound Arts” (PNSA). Its focus resides within the context of environmental sound arts and disciplines such as field recording, acoustic ecology and soundscape studies. PNSA questions entanglements of power and agency between recordists and their subjects and produces new epistemological consequences in relation to silence, subjectivity and technology. By discussing historical and contemporary audio documents, the author demonstrates how sonic representations are part of an interlacing of geographies, media, and time. These recordings harbor trace evidence of anthropogenic incursion and are re-heard in order to question a history of non-impact within the practice of environmental sound arts. PNSA therefore aims to function as both an audial-analytical methodology and instigator for artistic praxis.
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