Artist statement

I would like to question our approach to artistic expression in the mass-market era, our capacity to perceive and interpret the world and the self, and our subsequent consciousness and freedom. I dream about and work for a way of creation, interpretation, and reception of art within an environment free of market domination, academic technocracy, and administrative deception.

As an artist, I am interested in the perceptive approach to creating situations and the literalness of perception while inhabiting them, their here and now. I feel that today's reality is a place where availability and immediacy have been absolutized. In such a reality, the simple fact of sitting in there and contemplating becomes extremely relevant.

In my artistis doings, I question to goal- and future-orientation in which we are embedded and which have led us to a crisis of presence. My practice is approached as a source of continuous reflection rather than finalized products, a space to dwell that has found its latest creative motor in rural nostalgia and its collective memory.

El regreso a los bosques es la solución (Ñu - Cuentos de ayer y de hoy, 1978)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jean-Paul Sartre for La Nausée, John Kennedy Toole for A Confederacy of Dunces, John Steinbeck for The Grapes of Wrath, and José Luis Sampedro for El río que nos lleva.

Thanks to Galina Ustvolskaya, the truest composer, and to Éliane Radigue, Eva-Maria Houben, and Jakob Ullmann for defying the immediacy era. Thanks to William Basinski for being nothing enough.

Thanks to Dada (dada m'dada, dada m'dada dada mhm, dada dera dada, dada Hue, dada Tza). Thanks to Fluxus. Thanks to what is meaningless, useless, and empty according to the mass-market society.

And thanks to all artists yet to be discovered, lost in the ocean of information, that will guide and inspire my work at some point. I am constantly searching for you.

This open-source website has been kindly designed and developed by Giang Tran 😎. Still a work in progress!

Hi!

My name is Pilar Miralles and I was born in Almería (Spain) in 1997. I am a composer and researcher currently based in Helsinki (Finland). I completed my Master's Degrees in Electroacoustic Composition and in Composition in Madrid and Helsinki, respectively, and now I am a doctoral candidate in the Arts Study Programme of DocMus Doctoral School at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. In my artistic research, I aim to develop a situated practice amid a world in which the immediacy of progress leads to permanent obsolescence, making the notion of presence impossible. Seeking back this experience of presence in the immediacy era leads me to a practice of inhabiting, enacting, and reimagining forgotten, expired, and obsolete places, objects, and practices (especially from my rural nostalgia) through their collective memory. This process is shared with the audience through a series of multimedia installations to bring about continuous reflection on alternative modes of being and becoming in the world.

My work as a composer has been supported by Teosto, MES, and Pro Musica Säätiö.

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