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 the 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 those expired objects and abandoned places that remain despite oblivion.

Time passes. Stuff withers. Things become nothing but their memory. And memories can only live through someone.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Jean-Paul Sartre for La Nausée, and John Kennedy Toole for A Confederacy of Dunces.

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.

Thanks to all artists who have taught me to listen beyond notes and structures.

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'm a sound artist and researcher currently based in Helsinki (Finland). I completed my Master's Degrees in Electroacoustic Composition and Composition in Madrid and Helsinki, respectively, and now I'm a doctoral candidate in the Arts Study Programme of DocMus Doctoral School at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. In my artistic doings, I'm preoccupied with how the rapidity of progress might render our relationship with the world shallow and obsolete. I focus on situated practices that seek to restore a deep awareness of our reality and a sense of belonging to it, especially through the retrieval and resignification of memory. I'm currently expanding my practice to video filming, field recording, and site writing, finding in installation art a solution for the processual and open-ended nature of my work.

I have recently participated in artistic programs at the ULYSSES Network (EU), the FCAYC Foundation (Spain), and SPAIN arts & culture (US), among others. My work has been supported by Teosto, Musiikinedistämissäätiö, Pro Musica Säätiö, and Suomen Säveltäjät.

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