Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0002-9982-9980
Abstract
This visual essay explores what unfolded during a month-long participatory sonic space in a community art gallery in the southeastern United States. We walk through the multiple sound stations we designed to provoke playful interactions and challenge dominant hierarchical binaries that often persist in gallery and art education space (e.g., artist/audience, instrument/non-instrument object, music/noise, culture/nature). While considering these various spaces we created for nudging visiting audience members to engage with diverse sonorous objects in becoming active musicmakers, thus becoming audience-participants, we also consider the concepts underpinning our design decisions. We conclude by considering how the living sound exhibit and participatory installation cultivated radical relationalities and opened potential for the kind of critical learning needed to flourish in tumultuous times.
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Recommended Citation
Perry, Shannon; Pierce, Emmie; and Vogt, Jon
(2025)
"Community-Based Participatory Sound Play for Critical Holistic Learning,"
International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education: Vol. 8, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ijllae/vol8/iss1/9