What lies beneath KIVIKASA and what is sound art? - KIVIKASA as a step to undersntand sound art and sound art as a way to understand KIVIKASA

摘要

In the Spring of 2014 my colleague, Saku Kämäräinen, and I created a sound artwork for the Me- dia Lab students’ group-exhibition in Tokyo. In the aftermath of the exhibition I started to ponder how our artwork relates to the context of sound art and my personal uncertainty about the whole field of sound art in general. I started reading literature about sound art and the ideas that I was exposed to and the beginning of a collaboration through internship with sound artist Ariel Busta-mante, made me ask the question from myself — “What is sound art and what kind of sound art KIVIKASA is?”My master thesis walks through this aforementioned chain of events utilizing the method of practice based research in which the subject of inquiry is the artwork, its creator and the whole process.I will reflect my personal background motivations and attitudes, review events and ideas that have influenced the creative process. Through these intentions and believes I will review and reflect the creative process — both design and construction process by revealing what lies beneath KIVIKASA until the moment when the first question was asked that ignited this writing process.Then I will be transported into the world of sound art literature to explore what sound art is, or what it could be. This is done by reviewing history of sound art and some of the ideas that are expressed in the literature, for example listening and the habit of sound art sticking with its own materiality of sound. In the end I will be brought back to analyse and inspect the artwork in the light of new acquired understanding from the literature. I am trying to find understanding to the question: “What kind of sound art KIVIKASA is?”In the conclusion I try to search understanding about how the writing process, literature and the whole process affected me. Underneath this process lies a will to understand something that I don’t yet understand.