Publications
Article | Harmonias de Resistência: A Escuta como Ecoativismo no Festival Lisboa Soa
Rita Santos, INET-md researcher pursuing her PhD at NOVA FCSH, published "Harmonias de Resistência: A Escuta como Ecoativismo no Festival Lisboa Soa", an open access article in the journal Etno - Cuadernos de Etnomusicologia. In her text, Rita analyses a performance by Mikhail Karikis, who took part of the pre-openning of the festival Lisboa Soa 2022.
Abstract:
This article explores the sound dimension of the Lisboa Soa Festival as a platform for promoting environmental awareness and addressing the anthropogenic impacts of noise pollution on the environment. Using the work of Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis as a case study, this research highlights the potential of sound art in raising public awareness of ecological and social issues. Drawing on the fieldwork conducted in July 2022, I demonstrate how the festival's artistic practices contribute to building environmental consciousness and pedagogy, encouraging a reevaluation of the individual’s relationship with the environment and the climate crisis. Following an ethnographic methodology, this study reveals how sound art can stimulate reflections on audience engagement with the festival’s activities and performative elements. Ultimately, framed within the theme of "Reinvention," this article seeks to explore the success of this edition of the Lisboa Soa Festival in raising awareness of issues related to the urban soundscape. Viewing this event as a key resource for devising responses to the renewal of the urban sensory and physical environment, I reflect on how Karikis employs sound art as a vehicle for rethinking the individual’s relationship with the environment and the climate crisis, where the immediate physical environment is taken as both a metaphor and a means of collective engagement in addressing environmental issues.
