In this exhibit, sound is represented as an overarching medium connecting the artworks displayed. Visitors of the “Affiliations” exhibit will find poetic works that radically explore language and sound. For the curators, sound is one of the fundamental aspects, if not the core, of experimental and digital poetics. Yet, as some writers and critics have pointed out - especially Chris Funkhouser, Hazel Smith, and John Barber - sound has not been sufficiently highlighted as a fundamental trait of electronic literature.
The “Affiliations” exhibit presents works that embrace appropriation and remix of older and contemporary pieces - be they merely formalist or politically engaged - as pervasive creative methods in experimental poetics. Furthermore, it suggests that electronic literature can be seen as a heterogeneous field of self-reflexive experimentation with the medium, language, sound, code, and space.
At the Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão, connections between several art forms and movements, ranging from the baroque period to Dada and experimentalism will be underlined. In so doing, the “Affiliations” exhibit will present works printed on paper, composed of sound or generated by computational media. This exhibit is divided into nuclei of practice, where works can be independently or simultaneously read, played, listened to, watched, and remixed.
(Source: Books of Abstracts and Catalogs)