Week 9: Performative Possibilities in Audio Paper Production
In this workshop we will explore the performative possibilities of Audio Papers, using your script drafts to develop performative skills through presentation and practical experimentation. Please bring your script draft.
I found the idea of the video was very investing and I would like to amplify this idea in my topic too. A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. In the audio paper, I assumed it would be very likely to collaborate the ideas with the community or the audience?
I was looking at “Pauline Oliveros – Sonic Images & Dialogue With Basho”, and my first expression of the page was covered by three things: 1. It lets me think of the pink elephant, like someone tells you don’t have that in you mind, but you keep having it. 2.I find silence is the hardest word in the world. Where can we find silence? Is silence appear? How could we cherish Silence? How could we use words to describe it? Is that available? who knows? 3.If I go to galleries, I always find myself is a very stimulus person, so I couldn’t listen or watch boring stuffs, if something I only can stick to it like 15s, then I will definitely think it is a boring piece, and I will never have time to listen to the climax.
To answer the question, I enjoy watching stars in the balcony, I love stars, moonlight and gentle wind breezing me. I enjoy embracing the big trees if there is a very wild farm…
I listened to “Joshua Gaskin-Brown – INFINITY FM- An Audio Paper on the DIY Sound Cultures that Moulded me”. The introduction was very performative and I found it like hiphop rap style? I like his rhythm of speaking, it is very chill (not like reading). He used a lot of quiet background when he was thinking, demonstrating his ideas clearer. He put a lot of effort in to sound archives, which makes it very knowledgable.
Aspects of Performance – Discussion （keywords of today’s lesson)
Homage? I might use it because I have a chef in my audio paper who is called Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef, author and TV presenter specialising in the cuisines of the South Pacific.
Embodiment or incarnation is defined as the giving of human form to a spirit – to make manifest or comprehensible an idea or concept, through a physical presentation. I would definitely use embodiment but nor as an ASMR type. I think its more like a real feeling how I generate sound in appetising.
Honestly speaking, I did not think of using persona until I had lesson today, cause I found it would be really funny and comfortable. And it would be a challenge for me as well, because English is my second hand language so I had not tried to change my voices in a “very long piece”. I found the piece Outsider was very intriguing and performative. It was like a BBC style thing but more attractive than it. Ingrid suggested me to use AI voice or pitch shifting on my audio paper, which would definitely work and it would be more easy as there would be a lot of academical sentences… But I think I will try to use my original voice as a challenge, as I said before, I was working as a dubber in china and I knew the general stuff of voice performing. But I found it would be harsh in English, cause it is always interesting on thinking which word or words would be the most focusing while you are performing? And the rhythm might be a bit chinglish…
Modes-documentary: I will use interview as the most performative theme in my audio paper, cause I would like to gather cultural voice and sites.
On Practice: Listening asks: How can listening form a space of political encounter? What is the difference between listening and hearing? How do other people hear?
Elia Nurvista is an artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia whose practice focuses on food production and distribution and its broader social and historical implications. Food in various forms — from the planting of crops, to the act of eating and the sharing of recipes — are Nurvista’s entry point to exploring issues of economics, labour, politics, culture and gender. Her practice is also concerned with the intersection between food and commodities, and their relationship to colonialism, economic and political power, and status. She runs Bakudapan, a food study group that undertakes community and research projects, and her social research forms the background of her individual projects, presented through mixed media installations, food workshops and group discussion. Her previous installations use a range of materials from crystalline sugar sculptures to sacks of rice, often incorporating video or mural painting and an element of audience interaction.
“There is the moment of free-ness in just being able to talk about it, their lives, without the trauma of like you know, their status, basically.” – Ain Bailey
I think listening is very unavoidable in every audio paper. I am not using it as a major element, but I will apply this knowledge, cause the political voice of lockdown in Shanghai would be one of my focuses. At the same time, as an artist, I think it would be very hard to describe my work in speaking it. The idea art would be the same idea as perform, We can say everyday we are alive, we are wearing masks to perform. The same idea as art, if we define the thing, the tension we do is art, then it is. I was thinking to do the art voices in gallery at first, let people who are not artists try to act as a fake artist and present an artwork. I though it would work. But at the same time, art speaks to itself. That’s why I never used any art instructions in galleries. It’s more about my own inspiration and the new meaning forwards it.
How I define performing?
video-output-D94AB62A-7557-4EAD-BFC9-959589BCBA97.MOV (My favourite song about cooking on the playlist, it is called mum’s cooking) My performative action towards it.
I am a very boring and an old school person. I think my idea on perform would be more related to body movements and the influence of Leban?