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

这个项目从一个现存的现场艺术作品开始，名为“Soie soyeuse”（意思是，作为一个听觉双关语，“丝绸”和“丝绸”）。观众每次由一到三个人组成。设计的作品是心理物理，戏剧，并广泛使用扩展声乐技术。这件作品是与一位设计师合作设计的，目的是在一个非常具体的视觉空间中为观众带来强烈的丝绸体验。这项研究旨在尝试将“Soie soyeuse”背后的理念和表现提升到另一个层次。在不受大众电子传播媒介影响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、触觉和听觉的概念，以及与艺术品直接、亲密的关系，如何为观众提供独特的、真正的“触摸”体验。在今天的艺术环境中，对表演过程和产品的记录已经成为创造性研究、营销和学术研究目的的必要条件。这通常是通过各种数字图像/声音捕获技术完成的。在现场表演的世界里，特别是在设计的、跨学科的、当代的表演中，这种表演必然是短暂的和无形的，我们关心的是我们如何“记住”、重新体验或抓住暂时的生活经验，以及这些暂时的表演如何影响我们的身体。这些问题支撑了这个实践主导的研究项目所涉及的实践和反思探索。所讨论的探索包括：1。使用各种手段，包括视听记录和表演写作，详细记录“Soie soyeuse”在其制作空间中的表演。基于上述第(1)项中的文档，为一种创新的实验性、表演性、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品相关的艺术家设计师合作。这次合作将涉及到他们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音频记录。创作过程将继续在我的艺术、创意和概念指导下进行，我将作为每一页的共同设计师/设计师，以及整个项目的设计师。4. 由此产生的页面将由出版商装订成50本基于织物的多媒体纺织艺术书，这不仅是因为其视觉质量，也不仅仅是因为其文本，视频或音频元素，而且还因为其触觉质量。这本书的目的是用指尖感觉，并包括元素，如原纺丝，丝绵，木纤维，和其他这样的感觉产生的材料。艺术家的书将正式出版发行。5. 这个艺术项目的过程和产品将被记录和分析，特别关注Didier Anzieu的皮肤自我理论，以及心理-有机分析的现象学方法，以理解皮肤、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“从声音到触摸：从扩展的声音到艺术家的书”的学术文章，该文章将描述和反思所取得的艺术发现，并将提交给网络期刊，以便多媒体文档可以纳入文章。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.