Blind Concert: The World and Its Transformation through Music

Authors

  • Nataša Milović

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i7.91

Keywords:

performing art, Blind Concert, affirming resistance, institution of art, inaesthetics

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of a Blind Concert held in Belgrade. In a Blind Concert performance, the concept of “space” transforms not for the sake of transformation itself, but because of the effect it strives to achieve. This eliminates the predominance of an institution of art dictating how a musical work should be approached. Accompanying the interpretation of piano compositions, the vocalist let out screams, voices, and noises, which, one may say, could not be summoned inside us, because they have yet to be articulated. I will articulate the effects of the desired transitional forms that have remained trapped and unrepresented in social standardization in terms of Badiou’s inaesthetics.

Author Biography

Nataša Milović

Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade
Serbia

Ph.D. student

References

Badiou, Alain. Theory of the Subject. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2009. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350252042

Badiou, Alain. Manifesto of Affirmationism. Lacanian Ink. http://www.lacan.com/frameXXIV5.htm

Badiou, Alain, and Slavoj Žižek. Philosophy in the Present. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.

Tasić, Vladimir. Svetovi Alena Badijua: matematika, poetika, politika. Novi Sad: Adresa, 2011.

After the end of Soviet hegemony and the fall of socialist regimes in Central and Southeast Europe, the consideration of the relationship between art and politics seems urgent. The experience of more than two decades of political and structural changes toward the development of institutions of global capital also contributes to this urgency. The debate over the (political) nature of art becomes necessary, taking into account that this question has been superseded by a marketplace wherein all designations and forms of Art are available. It shows (itself) to be the best vehicle for manipulation and instrumentalization towards the current doxa that ‘everything is possible’. Moreover, the issue of the political aspect of art has been complicated by the dominant intellectual opinion and denunciations that all forms of utopian and social dimensions of art, as in the case of revolutionary and emancipatory perspectives of the avant-gardes, are responsible for the horrors of totalitarianism and terrorism. The aim of this issue therefore is to address the question of how to constitute and affirm an active Art today without slipping into essentialism. Focus Issue Editor: Bojana Matejić

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Published

15.04.2015

How to Cite

Milović, N. (2015). Blind Concert: The World and Its Transformation through Music. AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, (7), 71–76. https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i7.91

Issue

No. 7 (2015): Issue No. 7, April 2015 - Topic of Issue: Art and Politics: Agency, Autonomy, Emancipation

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Articles

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