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Luz María Sánchez
Vis.[un]necessary force_1 (V.[u]nf_1) addresses the subject of contemporary violence from the citizen’s experience. It derives
from shootings that people accidentally chanced upon recorded with their cell phones and posted on YouTube. With V.
[u]nf_1 we are merging interactive, participatory involvement of users into the emotional experience of violence with the
hybrid, networked space of multimedia installation organised with sound, space, sound sculptures, images, and texts.
V.[u]nf_1 design is interactive, participatory, and performative in several layers. [1] Interactive in terms of audience
participation as the visitors decide if they activate the gun-shaped sound devices. [2] Participatory in terms of production,
since the sound-data were generated by multiple individuals, who in this way contributed to the work. [3] Performative since
the visitor’s behaviours determine the experience of the artwork and depending on the extent of their interactions is the
outcome – which sounds plays when, how and for how long.
The archive behind V.[u]nf_1 is an element as important as the sound devices that play the sounds. The printed elements
consist of the detailed descriptions of the incidents – the sources of sounds | data related to the original YouTube files – as
well as a map of Mexico. Two different multimedia installations and a web-art project, emerged from this art-research project.
Luz María Sánchez is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and scholar. She holds a Doctorate in Art from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Her artistic research extends to sound and language as a techno-scientific machine and builds upon environmental urgency. Sánchez received two consecutive Prix Ars Electronica’s Honorary Mentions (2020 & 2021) for her projects Vis.[un]necessary force #3 and #4. In 2015 she was granted the Climate Change Artist Commission by the Land Heritage Institute (Texas) and in 2014 she received the First Prize Award for the inaugural Biennial de las Fronteras (Mexico). Sánchez has authored four books, curated exhibitions and transdisciplinary conferences and presented by invitation at leading institutions such as the School of the Art Institute Chicago SAIC, the University of the Arts London UAL, and ZKM. With a professional career of +22 years, Sánchez has exhibited in Europe and the Americas, most recently at Vincent Price Art Museum VPAM, Los Angeles (2022); Ars Electronica, Linz (2021, 2020); MUAC, Mexico City (2019); WRO Art Center, Wroclaw (2019); CCCB/Hangar, Barcelona (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (2018); and ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2017).