Protesty, rytuały, dekonstrukcje – pogranicze USA i Meksyku we współczesnej sztuce dźwięku
Protests, Rituals, Deconstructions – the Borderland of USA and Mexico in the Contemporary Art of Sound

Summary/Abstract: An essay on contemporary works on the art of sound dealing with the USA–Mexico borderland. The point of departure is, on the one hand, Borderwall as Architecture. A Manifesto for the U.S.–Mexico Boundary, a book by Ronald Rael, and, on the other, the tradition of reflections (Gloria Anzaldúa) and artistic praxis (Guillermo Gómez-Peña), which shaped contemporary, dynamic border studies. The reasoning focuses on artistic praxis using borderland recordings (Ultra-Red, José Manuel Flores, Glenn Weyant), material objects found along the borderland (Guillermo Galindo, Glenn Weyant), and trans-border experiments conducted with radio art (Cog•nate Collective, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer). These studies were placed within a wider context of works concerning the USA–Mexico border as well as those on the art of sound art referring to other borders and borderlands. Fundamental research questions concern the possibility of deconstructing borders as well as undermining the policies of militarizing them by means of the art of sound.

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