Transversally to the production of the six artists participating in the Art and Context Program, a series of activities are proposed to foster the creation of new connections and approaches to different modes of production or methodologies, providing perspectives that both the artists and the general public can revisit.
Musician, writer, curator, and sound artist David Toop is the focus of this first activity organized as part of the Program. The research group artists (Darío Alva and Diego Navarro, Claudia Dyboski, Marina González Guerreiro, Álvaro Porras, and M Reme Silvestre) will engage in dialogue with the guest, with participation from the audience encouraged. The conversation will mainly revolve around Toop’s publication Ocean of Sound (1995), a journey that begins in 1889, when Claude Debussy attended a Javanese music concert at the Paris Exhibition, which Toop sees as marking the beginning of the twentieth-century musical landscape. From this episode, Toop explores the genres and categories that culminate in an ethereal, deterritorialized, and immersive sonic culture.
