'Discussions of media-based art rarely include a substantial review of sound, whether it is used as a component or as the sole medium of a work- At its most effective sound is not simply laid on to provide a background unifying element to the flow of images or actions, but both collaborates in the production of meaning and extends the spatial dimension of the work. Sound evokes images; but it also positions the listener in a physical relation to the source of transmission, or in an illusory relation to distance (drawing nearer/fading away). There is an extensive practice by women artists that uses sound to explore the socio-sexual implications of speech and audition. It is what this work has to say about the construction of female subjectivities that these notes attempt to address.
The inattention to aural experience in the construction of human subjectivity is undoubtedly coincidental with a general emphasis in critical debates on visual representation, an emphasis which is attributed to the priority given to vision in a Western culture dominated by patriarchal principles.... A [ ] depreciation of the female voice and a usurpation of its creative potential is to be found in contemporary media representations....' for the whole article click here
Jean Fisher teaches at the Royal College of Art and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University.
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QUESTIONS:
How do you or do you think women artists use sound to explore the 'socio-sexual implications of speech and audition'?
What do you think about the notion of 'inattention' to the aural experience...?
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