In "For More than One Voice", the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero underlines the singular and embodied materiality of voice, while emphasizing the fact that voice is primarily relational and always creates a mutual resonance among unique human beings. Moreover, Cavarero interprets vocal exchange as the paradigm of a politics that is based on “the reciprocal communication of voices” and that find an ideal dimension in “a kind of song 'for more than one voice' whose melodic principle is the reciprocal distinction of the unmistakable timbre of each”1.
By embracing this understanding of voice as a primary intersubjective medium and elaborating on the concept of the resounding and listening subject as a relational subject, “Choirs. Voices of Collectivity and Plurality in the Contemporary Arts” explores the potential of notions of chorality, polyphony and collective voice in the arts of the last ten years and surveys how group singing has become a recurring theme or a strategy in the work of interdisciplinary artists working in visual arts, music, performing arts and the moving images.
Drawing on different fields of inquiry – critical theory, political philosophy and ethnomusicology – the project …show more content…
It follows uses of choirs across the arts, as expressions of shared identities, a productive metaphor for group formation, organization and action, or as a form of resistance and a symbol of the search for embodied and local common areas of connection. It recognizes the choir as a radical shared exposure, an intersection of intimate and social space articulating the common desire to speak out and to be
By embracing this understanding of voice as a primary intersubjective medium and elaborating on the concept of the resounding and listening subject as a relational subject, “Choirs. Voices of Collectivity and Plurality in the Contemporary Arts” explores the potential of notions of chorality, polyphony and collective voice in the arts of the last ten years and surveys how group singing has become a recurring theme or a strategy in the work of interdisciplinary artists working in visual arts, music, performing arts and the moving images.
Drawing on different fields of inquiry – critical theory, political philosophy and ethnomusicology – the project …show more content…
It follows uses of choirs across the arts, as expressions of shared identities, a productive metaphor for group formation, organization and action, or as a form of resistance and a symbol of the search for embodied and local common areas of connection. It recognizes the choir as a radical shared exposure, an intersection of intimate and social space articulating the common desire to speak out and to be