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Performative Strategies II. - Sound Experiments I

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2018

Abstract

The article is a part of a methodologically elaborated series of encounters with contemporary art in the art education class in the elementary and high school teaching. This time, the author has chosen the work of American artist and educator Alvin Lucier and his experimental sound installation I am Sitting in a Room.

The work, which was created in the 1960s, deals with the phenomenon of space resonance, the behavior of sound in space and its transformation through reproduction and recording devices. It shows how the sound travels through shape changes of the expression and the like, in the same way as other works of art to which we return to and transform it until it obtains its final shape and form.

While offering the use of digital technologies during the art education class the nature of assignment also overlaps into other subjects - English, physics and music.