This week I applied for the National Detective Programme and worked on my thesis.
This week I was going to have a meeting with Willem about the feedback from the draft submission. However, the first time we had arranged i had to move out of my uni house and the second date, Willem had issues with travelling to another country and so understandably missed that call. Due to this, I may not have much to discuss this week as most of my effort will be going towards perfecting my Thesis, but i will report on key things i have done this week and any extra- thoughts I had that did not quite fit in my thesis.
First Draft:
I found an interesting line of discussion while i was writing my introduction about how if a tree falls in a forest, it only makes sound when there is someone there to listen to it. However I was unsure where it would fit.
I thought, that perhaps the sounds that haunt the gallery do not exist ( in this same way) until the first spectator walks into the gallery. I thought this could be an interesting consequence of 'in-person' engagement with the gallery, however I forgot to consider that there are already people who work in the gallery: the staff at the venue that reinforce the ideologies of the space are the same ones who first invite the presence of sound into the site. What is worse, is that then i can imagine a gallery which makes use of technology in the same way that new digital stores are emerging that do not require human workers, but rely on digital technologies to operate the grocery stores etc. Perhaps in that dystopian gallery space, where not even human workers are at the building, the spectator is even more separated and dislocated from the space.
Another thing I wanted to mention, was that i found that two weeks ago, Sound Artist Bill Fontana had a sound installation focussed on Notre Dame. While I won't explain all the interesting things that this work discussed, it is a clear and great example of a spatially aware sound art work and its ideas of silent resonance have made its way into my thesis' conclusion.
( Installation view of Bill Fontana’s “Silent Echoes : Notre-Dame 2022” at the Centre Pompidou, June 8–July 2, 2022. Photo: courtesy of the artist. )
Career Progression
This week I applied for the National Detective programme. I had never considered joining the police, but i received a text from GradIntel, a service that I believe the Uni pays for. Their graduate scheme is for talented graduates who want to apply their unique perspectives to making the country safer. Again, while i had never considered it, I thought i may as well apply as it is a graduate scheme that may give me a sense of security to have a research-based job after I graduate. However, the two year training for that role will start in March 2023, and so i will still be looking for opportunities for until then, and I will continue to apply for more appropriate opportunities as they come up.
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