The value of Public in Sound Art as a metaphor of an Expanded Spatiality. Creating and Curating Public Sound Art

Abstract

The experience of public spaces in large cities often returns to aggressive environments in which the citizen is deprived of the temporal space of the imagination. Different events in the city propitiate an environment of unidirectional stimuli. This situation is experimented as symbolic violence and dismisses the creative perception of the citizens in favor of a perception completely guided by the network of unrecognized power relations. In the paper, different examples of sound installations and sound actions in the public space will be analyzed. Attention will be paid to the responses they allow to the citizens, as well as to the works' repercussions in the social spaces of the city. The paper aims to elucidate different forms of sound art interventions in the public space. The recognition of the social public sphere, the triggering of an expanded experience of the city places, and the double immersion of the citizen-user will be pointed out as directions to be considered.