How it’s possible to relate today with a geographical category as the South is? Is the South a simple expression of latitude? Or is it a phenomenon? Is it a method or a stereotype? This is the core of a fragmented and multiform debate to which many artists contribute, searching for a sonic “dimension” of the South, finally discovering that it’s not possible to identify only “a” South, but it is rather a plural concept which contains in itself many possibilities and paths intertwining each other.
Different artists working with different aesthetic approaches and languages at different latitudes re-read the relation between North and South of the world, transforming geographical spaces in places where it’s possible to experiment their own contingency and to show the limit of Europe and Western culture, that are constantly looking for the fullness of an origin.
In this lecture, the speaker focuses on how to open up a path in which the research “on the visual, musical, literary and critic languages” (I. Chambers) can introduce removed dimensions in the cultural debate, showing at the same time how sound, as ontological tool of exploration, is an essential element not only for bringing evidence into what’s hidden in the folds of a territory, but also for avoiding all possible transparent and rational representation of the reality in which we are immersed.