The course aims to analyze the relationships between visual arts and musical research in the second half of 20th century. The goal is to intersect different planes to outline a variously branching scenario of the interaction between image and sound, artistic expression and musical creation in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on research, moments of contact (also at the level of circulation of information and places of theoretical debate), influences, parallel creations and linguistic overlaps that involve the circuits of avant-garde culture and mass cultural phenomena on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Mutuazione: 20710394 ARTE E MUSICA NEL XX SECOLO in DAMS Teatro, musica, danza LM-65 R CONTE LARA
Programme
The relationship between visual arts, sound and music runs through all of modernity, configuring a space of linguistic experimentation that the definition of Sound Art partially returns. Starting from the experimentation and aesthetic revolution of John Cage, who expanded the horizon of music to sound-noise, the course intends to analyze moments of collaboration between visual artists and musicians on both sides of the Atlantic with experiences that define the new horizons of the performative, between Happening, Environment and Fluxus, in an expanding network of international relations that is gradually becoming global. Specifically, the following topics will be analyzed: 1) relationship between painting and sound experimentation in gestural and informal research and in the experience of monochrome; 2) performative practices that have centered their poetics on the voice and on bodily sounds, also in relation to the use of new technologies or as a possibility of self-affirmation of identity; 3) environmental installations that have used sound and music in a research scenario that crosses Process Art, Arte Povera to arrive at contemporaneity.Attendance
Attendance is highly recommended.Type of evaluation
For attending students: Paper pertinent to the course content, selected in agreement with the professor. The paper should be 15,000 to 25,000 characters in length, including spaces and footnotes. It should be sent by mail ten days before the final examitation. For non-attending students: Oral exam.