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Nasłuchujące oko. Twórczość radiowa Juana Muñoza

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Muniak R. F.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

2010

issue 1(7)

The Listening Eye. Radio Works of Juan MuñozIn this article the author tries to analyze the radio works of Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz in the context of relations between image and voice. How do these co-relations affect one another and change the way look and hear? The text begins by trying to connect Muñoz’s radio works with his sculptures (images) through the analogy of the ventriloquist dummy, who is in this sense an image and doesn’t have a voice but has the potential to speak, whereas the voice in the radio allows the listener to imagine (image) through a voice he can only hear but never see. Both (radio and dummy) ‘come alive’ through an active participation of the viewer. The radio listener is confronted with an absence – an idea crucial to Muñoz’s sculpture – (lack of seeing), which he has to explore (in a way conjure up) and fulfill through listening, the same way the viewer has to listen to the sculptures, through his eyes. The images give voice to that what is represented, the same way as the voice in radio gives image to that what is spoken. The text explores the connotations of three radio works by Muñoz: Building for Music, Will It Be a Likeness and A Man in a Room Gambling, how they effect the listener on a visual level, how they force him to become an active listener (activate his imagination) just as his sculptures force the viewer to be an active onlooker. All this in contextualized through investigations into the contemporary phenomena of sound sculptures (Bill Fontana) and Glenn Gould’s theory ‘Radio as music’ in connection to the impact or rather forming qualities of art on the senses.

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Nasłuchujące oko. Twórczość radiowa Juana Muñoza