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Invitation to the Defense of Florian Kindlinger

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Defense
Art Theory and Cultural Studies
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
M13a

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Florian Kindlinger's dissertation project Sonic Heterotopias – In Between Sound, Music, and the Rest.

The Examination Panel is made up of: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Christian Kravagna (chair), Univ.-Prof. Diedrich Diederichsen (first supervisor), Prof. Dr. habil. Sabine Sanio (second supervisor), Dr. Ruby Sircar (member of the curricula commision) and Prof. Dr. Ute Holl (external appraiser, University of Basel).

Abstract

This work embarks on a search for sonic heterotopias, for "real place(s) beyond all places" (Foucault) in sound. It examines artistic and theoretical positions that lay a path to such "counterspaces". Examples are discussed which reflect, handle and interact with sonic material which can often only be uncovered through a certain amount of "dredging", as it eludes easy accessibility. A central question is the assumption that sound is a "thing" and its thematization in artistic practices which move along the edges of media technology and in the border area of human perception – as an attempt to approach the sonic "real" (according to the concept of Lacan). The focus is on techniques that, through their principle of breaking down continuities into discrete signs – as a symbolic structuring of noise, shape a politics of the visible, the audible and the speakable which serve as the basis for the constitution of Western sonic reality. Building on this, events are sought which oscillate apart from the known and accustomed dispositives and do not serve as references for the visible surface of sounding sources, but resonate as "non-places". They lie beyond the obvious reality and fall out of the framework of the German-speaking concept of "Klang" and resist easy readability.

Short biography

Florian Kindlinger is a sound artist, engineer, researcher based in Vienna. He is interested in the various possibilities and preconditions of auditory perception. His often site-specific projects combine aspects of installations, sculptures, live- as well as recorded sounds, moving and fixed images.

The defense presentation will be in German language and will take place in room M13a.

We are looking forward to welcoming you.