Experiencing a Song: the Political and Aesthetic Possibilities of Art

作为社会和政治需求的渠道，音乐在智利近代史上发挥了至关重要的作用。事实上，2019年的动员活动以艺术家及其表演获得的知名度以及通过艺术动员自己的活动家而闻名。这些抗议活动是由地铁票价上涨引发的，这导致了对教育、不平等和性别差距的系统性批评。这些智利的抗议活动为研究音乐的政治意义提供了丰硕的领域，主要有两个原因；第一，音乐一直是智利动员历史上的一个突出特征；第二，抗议活动可以被理解为一种“组织体验”(Lembo，2017)，解释不同的参与者如何与同一音乐对象互动。关于音乐与抗议之间的关系的文献倾向于强调艺术作品的政治信息和具体的政治含义(Reed，2005；Mathieu&Balasinski，2006)，但很少考虑艺术作品如何干预政治主题，改变他们如何感知和联系自己、他人和世界。为了实现这一点，本项目打算通过关系的角度，i)定位智利抗议活动期间出现的歌曲；ii)确定抗议活动的音乐世界，即与歌曲有关的演员网络，他们的互动和合作(Crossley，2019)；以及iii)探索演员的经历，以了解他们是否以及如何带来审美和政治转变。因此，我的项目将有助于日常生活的讨论，将审美层面与政治转型结合在一起，并增加我们对智利抗议活动中的激进艺术的理解。

Music has played a crucial role in recent Chilean history as a conduit for social and political demands.Indeed, the mobilisations of 2019 were notable for the visibility acquired by artists and theirperformances, and for activists who mobilised themselves through art. These protests were sparkedby an increase of metro fares, which led to systemic critiques of education, inequality and genderdisparity. These Chilean protests provide fruitful terrain for studying the political significance ofmusic for two main reasons; first, music has been a prominent feature in the history of Chileanmobilisations; second, protests can be understood as an "organising experience" (Lembo, 2017) forexploring how different actors interact with the same musical object.The literature on the relationship between music and protest has tended to emphasise the politicalmessage and concrete political implications of works of art (Reed, 2005; Mathieu & Balasinski, 2006),but has rarely considered how works of art caninterpellatepolitical subjects and transform how theyperceive and relate with themselves, others, and the world. To achieve this, through a relationalperspective this project intends to i) situate the songs that were present during the Chilean protests;ii) identify themusic worldof protests, that is, the networks of actors linked to the songs, theirinteractions and collaborations (Crossley, 2019); and iii) explore the actors' experiences tocomprehend if and how they entailed aesthetic and political transformations. As a result, my projectwill contribute to discussions of everyday life by binding together the aesthetic dimension with political transformation, as well as adding to our understanding of activist art in the Chilean protests.