Intimate performance, extended voice and embodied tactility: from performance to artist's book

这个项目从一件现存的现场艺术作品开始，名为‘Soie Soyeuse’(意思是，作为听觉双关，‘Silky Silk’和‘Be Silky’都是‘Silky Silk’和‘be Silky’)。观众一次由一到三名观众组成。这首曲子是心理物理的，戏剧性的，并广泛使用扩展的发声技巧。这件作品的目的是在一个非常特定的视觉空间为观众带来一种强烈的丝绸体验，并与设计师合作设计。这项研究旨在尝试将“Soie Soyeuse”的理念和表现提升到另一个水平。在没有大众电子传播媒介的现场表演越来越少被消费的社会背景下，我感兴趣的是，活跃的、触觉的和听觉的感觉以及与艺术品的直接亲密关系如何为观众提供独特的、字面上的“感动”体验。在当今的艺术环境中，记录表演中的过程和产品已经成为一种礼仪，用于创造性研究、营销和学术研究目的。这通常是通过各种数字图像/声音捕获技术专门完成的。在现场表演的世界里，特别是在精心设计的、跨学科的、当代的表演中，这必然是短暂的和无形的，人们关心的是我们如何“记住”、重新体验或保持对短暂活泼的体验，以及这些短暂的表演如何影响我们的身体。这些担忧支撑了这一以实践为导向的研究项目所涉及的实践和反思探索。本文探讨的内容包括：1.利用音像记录和表演写作等多种手段，详细记录了《Soie Soyeuse》在创作的空间中的表演。根据上述(1)中的文件，为一种创新的实验性的、表演性的、基于纺织品的“艺术家书”创建一个表演分数，或表演说明。使用(2)中的材料与三位与纺织相关的艺术家兼设计师合作。这次合作将涉及到每个人共同设计和制作艺术家的书的不同页面。其中一些页面将包括录音。创作过程将继续在我的艺术、创意和概念指导下进行，我将担任每个页面的联合设计师/主任，以及整个项目的设计师。4.结果页将由出版商装订成一本以织物为基础的多媒体纺织艺术书籍的50份，这本书的构思不仅是因为它的视觉质量，也不仅仅是它的文本、视频或音频元素，而且还因为它的触觉质量。这本书的目的是让人用指尖感受，包括生丝、丝绸填充物、木纤维和其他此类感官材料。这位艺术家的书将正式出版和发行。5.这个艺术项目的过程和产品将被记录和分析，特别是Didier Anzieu的皮肤自我理论和心理器官分析的现象学方法来理解皮肤、耳膜和视网膜作为感觉膜的形式。制作这本书的经验，包括不同合作艺术家的方法之间的比较和对比，也将是一个重点领域。这将导致撰写一篇名为《从声音到触觉：从延伸的声音到艺术家的书》的学术文章，这篇文章将描述和反思所取得的艺术发现，并将提交给一份网络期刊，以便将多媒体文档纳入文章。该项目包括创建各种可传播的最终产品。

This project begins from an existing piece of live art work, entitled 'Soie soyeuse' (meaning, as an aural pun, both 'Silky Silk' and 'Be Silky'). The audience consisted of one to three spectators at a time. The devised piece is psychophysical, theatrical, and extensively uses extended vocal techniques. The piece was meant to literally bring an intense experience of silk to the audience in a very specific visual space, and was devised in collaboration with a designer. This research intends to experiment with taking the ideas behind, and performance of, 'Soie soyeuse' to another level. In a social context where live performance - unmediated by mass electronic transmission - is becoming increasingly seldom consumed, I am interested in how notions of active, tactile and aural sensation and direct, intimate relationship with artwork might provide audiences with unique, literally 'touching' experiences. In today's artistic environments, documentation of process and product in performance have become de rigeur, for creative research, marketing, and academic research purposes. This is usually done exclusively via various digital image/sound capture technologies. In the world of live performance, particularly in devised, interdisciplinary, contemporary performance, which is by necessity fleeting and intangible, there is a concern with how we might 'remember', reexperience, or hold onto the experience of temporal liveness, and with how these temporal performances effect our bodies. These concerns underpin the practical and reflective exploration this practice-led research project involves. The exploration in question consits of:1. Documenting in detail, using a variety of means, including audiovisual recording and performance writing, the a performance of 'Soie soyeuse', in the space for which it was made.2. Creating a performance score, or instructions for performance, for an innovative kind of experimental, performative, textile-based 'artist's book', based on the documentation that has taken place in (1) above.3. Using the materials in (2) to collaborate with three textile-related artist-designers. The collaboration will involve each of these co-desiging and manufacturing a different page for the artist's book. Some of these pages will include audio recordings. The process of creation will remain under my artistic, creative and conceptual direction, and I will act as co-designer/devisor of each page, and designer of the project as a whole. 4. The resulting pages would be bound by a publisher into 50 copies of a fabric-based, multimedia textile art book, which would have been conceived not merely for its visual qualities, nor merely its text, video, or audio elements, but also for its tactile qualities. The book will be intended to be felt with the fingertips, and include elements such as raw spun silk, silk wadding, wood fibers, and other such sensation-generating materials. The artist's book will be formally published and distributed. 5. The process and product underpinning this artistic project will be documented and analysed, paying particular analytical attention to Didier Anzieu's theory of the skin ego and and the phenomenological approach of psycho-organic analysis to understanding the skin, the eardrums and the retina as forms of sensual membrane. The experience of making the book, including comparison and contrast among the different collaborative artists' approaches, will also be an area of focus. This will lead to the writing of an academic article called 'From voice to touch: from extended voice to artist's book', which will describe and reflect on the artistic discoveries made and will be submitted to a web journal, so that multimedia documentation can be incorporated into the article. The project includes the creation of a wide variety of disseminable end products.