Une musique intérieure - Performance Programme

11:00 The Greeting (Pauline Oliveros) conducted by Mattin.

11:15 Resonant spaces and process of desubjectivation in Alvin Lucier’s work. Matthieu Saladin FR>ES+EU 

Alvin Lucier's work can be understood as a whole as a continuous investigation on the spatiality of sounds, i.e. on sound waves understood as spatial movement, or even as production of space. Such a specific research in the history of experimental music has nevertheless many implications that go beyond the only sound phenomenon. It supposes in the first place to rethink the relation between space and individual. This lecture will consider the singularity of this renewal at work in Lucier's pieces. The hypothesis defended will be that this experience is in reality an invitation to a process of desubjectivation, i.e. a critical attempt to disassociate oneself from the stratified, historical form of the subject as produced by the political economy to which the composer belonged – and to which we ourselves belong – and which considers the human subject both as a separate entity and as a yardstick by which everything is measured.

11:45 Live performance original score by Delia Gonzalez inspired by Erik Satie.

Delia Gonzalez will perform a new musical composition loosely inspired by Erik Satie Furntiture music

12:05 Deciphering social dissonance. Mattin with Pierre Bal-Blanc

First performative presentation of the book Social Dissonance which will come out next week on Urbanomic. In this presentation the concept of social dissonance will be explained: a structural form of cognitive dissonance that has to do with thinking that as individuals, we are already free subjects that can determine our future. However this idea is constantly being undermined at the structural level when we can only concieve a capitalist future which is
destroying the environment and our tomorrow.

12:35 Stage of Recovery: Occupy. Georgia Sagri  EN>EUS 

A reading from the newly published book Stage of Recovery by the author, artist Georgia Sagri In particular she will read texts wirtten by the artist during the Occupy Wall Street in 2010.

Photo
SOLO - NATURE STUDY NOTES - 1969-2019 [ATHENS VERSION] 2021, performance by Georgia Sagri during the live exhibition curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc with Delia Gonzalez, Serapis Maritime presented at Hot Wheels Athens, June 11, 2021; photo by Stathis Mamalakis © Georgia Sagri; Courtesy of the artist and HOT WHEELS ATHENS