On Framing the Negative
From the initial listening session of a specific artwork with different degrees of information, followed by a discussion on the challenges that its contextualisation and presentation to a broader audience may offer, this talk will develop on some of the poetic potentials and limitations that specific framings might allow for an otherwise less accessible artwork.
By means of exploring its connotations as a disruptive force, the negative – as the opposite, as the opposition, as the denial and as the depreciative, among others – is a poetic resource for artworks to subsist beyond any possible 'tracing back' to conventional approaches. If every criticism legitimates even more that which is being the criticised, artists have sought different ways to distance themselves from values and norms with which they do not wish to condone. This PhD research – The poetics of negativity in sound based artistic practices – aims to understand, in and through practice, how might an artwork create new affordances to reframe alterity while at the same time opposing its alienation by a given hegemonic system.
The presentation will be introduced and followed by a Q&A moderated by Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn.
