Samuel Perea-Díaz

Statement

I am interested in the possibilities of engaging, expanding, and mapping different geographies of sound. As an artist and spatial designer based in Berlin, my practice incorporates academic research, exhibition scenography and curating. I hold a degree in Architecture from the University of Seville and a MA in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts. Based on collaborations with other artists and re-exhibiting sound, my artwork blends, and moves between sonic activism and immersive virtual landscape. My sound-focused sculptures and installations explore art and technology by generating sonic spaces of mixed realities, which engage with sonification, relocation of sound, field recording, and virtual reality.

GlogauAIR Project

Acoustic terrains render the dimension of the social space through vibrations. It creates space for discussion and time-reflection in humans’ relations and behaviors. The project at GlogauAIR engages with re-exhibiting sonic interstices in a multimedia art installation as the result of an artistic research on architecture and sound. My art residency takes place in two parts: the first is an analytical approach to space by actively embodying and listening to the environment and the building. The second part focuses on the realization of a specific sound installation, which presents sound-in-objects and field recordings in a multichannel set-up.

Architecture, Installation, and Sound Art.

CV Summary

Education

• 2018 – 2022. Berlin University of the Arts – UdK | MA, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, DE.
• 2006 – 2013. Universidad de Sevilla | Arquitecto, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, SP.

Selected artworks

• 2022, Willowalks. A Sound Exploration | Soundwalk for Stretching Sensing School, TaT, Berlin, DE.
• 2022, UNAIDS_FactSheet_en.pdf | Installation at CHB, Berlin, DE.
• 2022, Transitory Sonic Bodies | Installation at The REED, Berlin, DE.
• 2022, Transitory Sonic Bodies | Installation at Sounds.About, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
• 2022, Antennae | Installation at TaT, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, Untitled (Topoanalysis) | Installation at SoundsAbout, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, Mortalidad_por_VIH2019_DEF.PDF | Installation at Rundgang – Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for ‘Wild Frictions. The Politics and Poetics of Interruptions’, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, In-between Breaths | Installation at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, Sonic Violence | Installation at TOP e.V, Neukölln 48 Stunden Festival, Berlin, DE.
• 2020, The wonderful everyday is coming | Installation at Sounds.About, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, DE.
• 2020, 030/XXX/YY | Installation at CLB – Berlin, DE.
• 2019, Encounters |Installation for Kontakte´19 Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste Berlin, DE.
• 2019, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for FoWe, Critical Geography Conferences. Berlin, DE.
• 2019, Rhythmic Encounters | Soundwalk for *C*A*R*E: International Urban Studies Conference. TU-Wien, Vienna, AT.

Grants and awards

• 2021, A Secas. Artistas Andaluces de Ahora |CAAC – Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, SP.
• 2019, Beca Investigación Nueva York (awarded mention) | Fundación ARQUIA & Real Academia de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando, SP.

Publications

• 2021, Rhythmic Encounters: A Sonic Manifesto | Co-edited with Banu Çiçek Tülü. Architecture [discussion] FUND Vilnius, LT.

Talks

• 2022, Artist talk at Schwules Museum part of Queer Art and Activism, DE.
• 2021, Artist talk at Andalusian Center For Contemporary Art, Sevilla, SP.
• 2020, Artist Talk at Architecture [discussion] FUND, Vilnius, LT.

Teaching

• 2021 – 2023, ‘Mapping Berlin, Geography of Sound’ at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE.
• 2019 – 2021, ‘Berlin Sonic. Auditory Collective Explorations’, co-teached with Banu Çiçek Tülü at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE.

Curatorial Work

• 2022, ‘Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt’, co-curated with Pepe Sánchez-Molero at Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE.
• 2021, ‘Listening to Listening’, co-curated with Tuçe Erel at TOP e.V., 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, DE.

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