Project

Singing in between the cracks: Intracultural dialogues of sounding practices in virtual environments (Cantando F(r)estas)

Code
G0AP825N
Duration
01 January 2025 → 31 December 2027
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Virtual reality and related simulation
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Epistemology
    • Musicology and ethnomusicology
    • Performance studies
    • Critical heritage
Keywords
virtual heritage plural epistemologies sounding practices
 
Project description

Artistic heritage plays a foundational role in the formation of cultural identities. Engaging with heritage necessarily implies taking an epistemic stance; adopting a particular attitude to knowledge of cultural objects and practices, and the transmission thereof. It becomes particularly challenging when heritage is intangible, involving embodied knowledge, oral and bodily histories that aren't easily preserved and shared. In the proposed project, we set up an interdisciplinary network around the embodied sounding practices of LUME Teatro (UNICAMP, BR) to develop novel and plural epistemological approaches to interaction with intangible heritage. We aim to explore the potential of advanced XR and AI technologies to develop a living archive built upon LUME’s practices and the ethos that underlines engagement with them, which allows intracultural embodied interaction. Further, we explore how such a platform can mediate the development of decolonial, plural epistemologies within archival practices and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) processes. We aim to cross-fertilise these technologies with the embodied knowledge of the practitioners and researchers to reflect on how dramaturgical tactics can potentialize and facilitate navigational epistemes for people immersed in virtual living archives. The framework of the FWO-FAPESP program is an ideal possibility to bring together this unique combination of interdisciplinary knowledge to realise this project.