{"id":133,"date":"2026-01-13T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:35:21","slug":"rebecca-collins-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/en\/rebecca-collins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rebecca Collins\u2019s artistic and academic trajectory was characterized by a profound exploration of <strong>listening as a research methodology<\/strong>, the <strong>sound archive as a space of memory<\/strong>, and <strong>performance as a form of critical thought<\/strong>. Her work was situated at the intersection of sound art theory and collaborative practices that link the arts with the experimental sciences. As a Ram\u00f3n y Cajal researcher at the CSIC Institute of History and a collaborator with the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Collins developed pioneering projects that explored <strong>scientific uncertainty<\/strong> through artistic media, particularly in works such as Listening to Dark Matter (2023), where she established a dialogue between particle physics and experimental sound practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the center of her thinking lies the notion of the <strong>sound archive<\/strong>, understood not merely as a repository of acoustic materials but also as a <strong>critical device for the construction of alternative memories<\/strong>. Her project Stolen Voices, developed in collaboration with Johanna Linsley, exemplifies this approach: a sonic investigation that employs listening and amateur espionage as strategies to reveal the hidden layers of contemporary soundscapes. Her book Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Art and Performance (currently in press) constitutes a fundamental testimony to her methodology, in which listening becomes<strong> a tool for detecting possible futures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memory<\/strong>, understood as an\u00a0<strong>active practice of reimagining the present<\/strong>, entirely detached from any form of nostalgia, runs through the entirety of Collins\u2019s work. Her interest in sound archives created during the pandemic and in practices of collective mourning reveals a conception of musical time that rejects chronological linearity in favor of\u00a0<strong>multiple, overlapping, and often contradictory temporalities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Collins\u2019s artistic and academic trajectory was characterized by a profound exploration of listening as a research methodology, the sound archive as a space of memory, and performance as a form of critical thought. Her work was situated at the intersection of sound art theory and collaborative practices that link the arts with the experimental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.ift.uam-csic.es\/jas_rebeccacollins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}