Experiencing a Song: the Political and Aesthetic Possibilities of Art

在智利近代史上，音乐作为表达社会和政治诉求的渠道发挥了至关重要的作用。事实上，2019年的动员活动因艺术家和他们的表演以及通过艺术动员自己的活动家获得的知名度而引人注目。这些抗议活动是由地铁票价上涨引发的，这导致了对教育、不平等和性别差异的系统性批评。智利的抗议活动为研究音乐的政治意义提供了丰富的领域，主要有两个原因；首先，在智利的动员史上，音乐是一个突出的特征；其次，抗议活动可以被理解为一种“组织体验”（Lembo, 2017），用于探索不同的演员如何与相同的音乐对象互动。关于音乐和抗议之间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与政治主题进行对话，并改变他们如何感知和与自己、他人和世界的关系。为了实现这一目标，本项目打算通过一个关系的角度，i)定位智利抗议期间出现的歌曲；ii)确定抗议活动的音乐世界，即与歌曲相关的演员网络，他们的互动和合作（克罗斯利，2019）；iii)探索演员的经历，以理解他们是否以及如何涉及审美和政治转变。因此，我的项目将通过将美学维度与政治转型结合在一起，促进对日常生活的讨论，并增加我们对智利抗议活动中激进主义艺术的理解。

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.