Missions and objectives
This SIG group is a sound research group that considers political, social, experiential, ecological, feminist, philosophical, etc. possibilities via sound. In other words, a group that in different ways and from different sonic orientations questions and re-visions realities, everyday hierarchies and conventions as well as political, academic, and institutional realities.
The aim of the group is not, or not only, to produce practice-based and discursive answers to the urgent questions of these contemporary problems, but rather to have a more sustainable investigation of the condition that produces their reality and its normalisation, i.e its acceptance as inevitable and unchangeable.
To this end we propose to engage a Sonic Thinking: the imaginary of sound’s connecting logic, as well as its embodied materialisation, which meets the complexly interwoven logic of the current crises, to understand this condition as a pre-condition, and to develop, collectively, methodologies of how to engage this condition: to produce conceptual and actual transformations and approaches that could be shared beyond the arts and humanities with (social) scientists working on their causalities and consequences.
This SIG group acts as a vital resource dealing with current and long-standing problems of precarity, economic asymmetries, social exclusion, oppression, discrimination, climate change, etc. It is meant to model, narrate, design, inhabit, and govern a plurality of alternative ideas through sound, sound art, music, discussions, poster making, workshops, etc.
It aims for a Sonic Futurism.
The inaugural meeting of the SIG Sound Research will take place on May 7th, 2025, during the 16th International Conference on Artistic Research, hosted by i2ADS, University of Porto.
Please register on our mailing list to get more information for this first meeting.
Participants can join on-site or online.
No conference fees have to be paid to join the SIG Sound Research meeting.