Topographies of Sound Festival

Contact

Topografije zvoka

Stari trg 21, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.topografijezvoka.si

Managed byŠKUC Association

Organised byŠKUC Gallery

Frequencyannual

Festival dates30.9.2017 – 4.10.2017

International Sound Arts Festival Topographies of Sound, the cycle of sound performances, concerts, listening-rooms, lectures and discussions, presents contemporary, so-called electro-acoustic forms of sound arts. Its emphasis lies on creativity of women artists, generationally, stylistic, culturally and politically different, who deal with new forms of sound arts. At the same time, the festival also reveals women pioneers of sound arts and electro-acoustic music of the 20th century. Artistic director is Nina Dragičević, who, as Luka Zagoričnik wrote in the Odzven Magazine, »introduces a new way of thinking about the landscape of art, music and sound with the choice of women artists and the issues that the festival opens«.

Background

International Sound Arts Festival Topographies of Sound was created in 2017 due to the weak thematisation of women artists in contemporary sound arts. The emphasis of the festival on gender difference reveals the specific historical, political, cultural and biographical contexts of sound artworks, points to the social positions of women authors and the conditions of their work, and at the same time it unveils the gender-unbalanced social realities. The festival seeks to avoid the classical concert form, mainly through the contextualization of artworks through the discussions, including the philosophy and sociology of sound and music. Artistic director Nina Dragičević started the festival as a logical continuation of her monograph The Famous Unknown: Sound Artists in the Construction of Society, published in 2016.

Programme

One of main emphasis of the festival is on contextualization of sound artworks. Soundness is the central and all-encompassing form of sociality, also subjectivation, therefore it is crucial how we listen, interpret and speak about sound arts. The first edition of the Topographies of Sound Festival in 2017 was named Contexts and it presented sound artists Bogdana Herman, Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Spačal (Agapea), Katarina Radaljac and Sorrel Hays. The second edition of the festival in 2018 is called Becoming Sound, with sound artists Eliane Radigue, Rosanda Sajko Korun, Larisa Vrhunc, Irena Z. Tomažin, Kara Blake, Ivana Maričić, Robertina Šebjanič and Nina Dragičević.

Venues

The festival takes place in the early autumn every year at various locations in Ljubljana, for instance at the Škuc Gallery, in Cankarjev dom, in 2018 also at Radio Slovenia Third Channel - ARS.

See also

• ŠKUC Association

External links

• Topographies of Sound Festival website
• The 2017 festival edition brochure
• Nina Dragičević website
• ŠKUC presentation of the Topographies of Sound Festival
• Luka Zagoričnik, Topografije zvoka, an interview with Nina Dragičević in Odzven.si