Precarity and Voice: Articulated Architectures of Dispossession

不稳定与声音：剥夺的明确架构

• 批准号: 2791042
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2791042
• 关键词: Precarity; Voice; Articulated; Architectures; Dispossession

This doctoral project investigates, through spatial sound recording, composition, writing, and documentary - intersections between housing as a lived socio-economic experience and voice as it is embodied, shared, heard and articulated within the home. In 'an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities' (Standing, 2011) the voice is a site of testimony and refuge - it bears the trace of our environment's impact on us, and carries the weight of our agency in response to it. Building on Brandon Le Belle's 'poor acoustics', Jacqueline Waldock's 'sensory ethnography' and the sonic practice of among others Cara Tolmie and Evan Ifekoya - this PhD combines situated ambisonic voice recording and vocal choirs in locations such as Guardian Properties, with surround-sound polyvocal installation, writing, and traditional documentary techniques - including oral testimony - to ask how individual voice connects with collectives through precarious architecture, and what forms of socio-political impact this creates for the individual inhabitant and communities.While current theoretical approaches to both voice hearing/embodiment and precarity and its effects proliferate within the humanities, and significant acoustic research within fields such as acoustic ecologies has enabled an understanding of how individuals are constituted as bounded selves, connecting with communities through architecture, there remains a distinct lack of practice-based artistic research that brings these subjects together to find applied and important insights to this urgent problem. Drawing acoustic research and oral testimony into conversation with affect, neuroscience/s, neuro/auraldiversity studies, music, and sonic art will provide the theoretical foundations for my situated spatial sound, writing and documentary practice; both to redress this lacuna and produce new knowledge pathways that traverse diverse fields/disciplines.

这个博士项目通过空间录音、作曲、写作和纪录片来研究住房作为一种生活的社会经济体验和在家庭中体现、分享、听到和表达的声音之间的交叉点。在“一个长期不安全和日益不平等的时代”（Standing，2011），声音是一个见证和避难所——它承载着我们的环境对我们影响的痕迹，并承载着我们对此做出反应的机构的分量。以 Brandon Le Belle 的“糟糕的声学效果”、Jacqueline Waldock 的“感官民族志”以及 Cara Tolmie 和 Evan Ifekoya 等人的声音实践为基础，该博士将在 Guardian Properties 等场所的环境立体声录音和声乐合唱团与环绕声相结合多声部装置、写作和传统纪实技术——包括口头证词——询问个人的声音如何通过不稳定的建筑与集体联系起来，以及什么形式这对个体居民和社区产生了社会政治影响。虽然当前关于声音听觉/体现和不稳定及其影响的理论方法在人文学科中激增，并且声学生态学等领域的重要声学研究已经使人们能够理解如何个体被构成为有限的自我，通过建筑与社区联系起来，但仍然明显缺乏基于实践的艺术研究，无法将这些学科聚集在一起，为这一紧迫问题找到应用和重要的见解。将声学研究和口头证言纳入情感、神经科学、神经/听觉多样性研究、音乐和声音艺术的对话中，将为我的情境空间声音、写作和纪录片实践提供理论基础；既可以弥补这一缺陷，又可以产生跨越不同领域/学科的新知识途径。