iart 10 sounding

Question 1

Focus: Sound Art, installations, the social aspects of the sonic.

Answer 1

Also: Postmodernism, contemporary life, conceptual art.

Question 2

What is Postmodernism?

Answer 2

• A break from modernism
• 1960s to today?
• Skeptical, critical
• anti-conventional, anti-authority, antiestablishment
• Never fully defined, always becoming
• Emphasis on local and particular rather than the universal

Question 3

More on Postmodernism:

Answer 3

Reality is constructed
• Globalization creates decentralization
• Reality only possible through individual interpretation

Question 4

Bruce Nauman (1941-)

Answer 4

• Following in the tradition of Duchamp
• Playful, use of puns
• Focus on text; focus on the body

Question 5

Sound artists: playing the world

Answer 5

Bill Fontana (1947-)
• “Harmonic Bridge” (2006)

Question 6

Stephen Vitello

Answer 6

• Sound Artist

* World Trade Center recordings

Question 7

Brian Eno

Answer 7

Music For Airports

Question 8

Max Neuhaus (1939-2009)

Answer 8

• “Times Square” (1977-1992; 2002)

Max Neuhaus is the pioneer of artistic activities with sound. A Renowned interpreter of contemporary music while still in his twenties, Neuhaus went on to become the first to extend sound as an autonomous medium into the domain of contemporary art.

Question 9

“Our perception of space depends as much on what we hear as on what we see.”

Answer 9

Max Neuhaus

Question 10

David Byrne (1952-)

Answer 10

• “Playing the Building” (2005, 2008)

Question 11

Meredith Monk/Ann Hamilton

Answer 11

• “Songs of Ascension” (2007)

* “Ann Hamiltonʼs Tower”

Question 12

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Answer 12

40-Part Motet

Alter Bonhof Video Walk

Question 13

40-Part Motet

Answer 13

– 40 individual recordings at once.

– Space; time; past/present

Question 14

Alter Bonhof Video Walk

Answer 14

– Uses both sound and video, combined with a personalized walk.
– Feels as if there are ghosts present!