Lucia D’Errico – Linearity and Divergence. Artistic Research and the Reconfiguration of the Musical Past
Keynote, Symposium Transformative Futures at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, organised by International Center for Knowledge in the Arts, 27.10.2022.
In times where artists are increasingly called up to take active responsibility toward changing conditions of coexistence in the context of global capitalism, few practices seem more abstracted from actuality than the performance of musical scores in the Western tradition. This presentation proposes to contrast this perception by exposing how even seemingly
straightforward and innocuous actions, such as composing, performing, and listening to musical scores, have profound connections to global systems of power, hierarchy, and the capitalization of knowledge and perception. Through the presentation of her previous research project Powers of Divergence, where the role of the interpreter of written music is questioned and transformed into the figure of the “operator,” D’Errico addresses the potential role of artistic research in unveiling covert structures of dominance in widely accepted artistic activities, and in proposing new, concrete futures for such activities. The relationship between the historicity of the musical heritage and its futurity will be questioned and perturbed, as well as the current division of labor between performer, composer, and listener.
Moderated by Kristoffer Gansing & Ole Lützow-Holm
