Cuerpo sonoro como cuerpo sónar

Madrid. October 2019. 

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The proposal Cuerpo sonoro como cuerpo sónar was presented at the 11th En Red Symposium, which took place in Madrid in the auditorium of Medialab-Prado from the 24th through the 26th of October, 2019, as part of the AVLab Encounters and the Punto de Encuentro Festival held by the The Spanish Association of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (AMEE). 

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Cuerpo sonoro como cuerpo sónar is an approach to the body as cartographer, expeditionary, in analogous relation to the processes of creation and accumulation of capital. Thus, if the consuetudinary power of large capitals has been due more to connectivity than extension, what geometrisation of bodies will require the movement that is thought of as emancipatory? Cuerpo sonoro como cuerpo sónar frames human corporeality as a sensorial system for orientation within the contemporary urban environment. A corporeality that is both emitter and receiver of sound, able to discern the source, direction and meaning of what it perceives, but also capable of reproducing and creating sound even when not listening, is used as a system of local positioning appropriate for the subjective re-appropriation of space. This presentation imagines the possibility of a spatial and corporeal cognitive mapping, with an outcome necessarily different from what we usually think of as a map.

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This proposal used Spanish language as vehicle for its communication, and can be accessed in the min 39 of the streaming of the 11th En Red Symposium here.