Strategies for the management of sound art linked to the Latin American public space

Abstract

This article is based on the results obtained from a research on the production processes of sound art aimed at public space in the Latin American context. The objective was to determine the common strategic processes of this type of proposals in the region, so that we could understand their interests and aesthetic characteristics from the functional and logistical perspective of cultural management. Throughout this text we present a theoretical framework that supports and contextualizes the object of study in the delimited environment of Latin America, this is configured from a methodology with qualitative interests based on literary references and personal experiences of contemporary Latin American artists. As a result, we present the proposal of a first version of a production model, which consists of a systematization of strategies taken from creative and operative methodologies of concrete case studies: works of public sound art occurred in five geographical positions of Latin America throughout the XXI century.