This week I presented for my mid-term review which I planned out last week and did a lot of work on my Thesis draft for its submission next week.
Mid Term Review:
For my Mid-Term review, I first started by outlining the project, broadly speaking. making clear the connections between how an understanding of the haunting fields of sound will specifically engage with the white cube. A lot of this was rewording my abstract to explain the project to new audiences. However, important feedback I received is that i need to make the work more accessible to wider audiences. Especially, the feedback that I need to reframe the positioning of the presentation. What I have been doing so far, is trying to explain all of the exciting ideas i've come across in my research project, however as Emma said, it is more appropriate for the presentation, to make it as accessible as possible to the widest audience, to demonstrate how the project has developed.
This is an element I did produce in the presentation, as i explained the progression of the analytical framework, and this is something i will include more of in my final presentation.
One thing that received the best feedback in my presentation was the video i had taken from my second installation, documenting one of the consenting spectators interacting with the directional sound of the parametric speaker. This is a one minute clip, and is discussed further in my thesis about the haunting effect it had on her and how the visual image of seeing someone respond to the space in such a way, haunts the social experience of the place, and thereby associates personal experience with the architecture/ aesthetic.
Thesis draft submission
This week I did a lot of work on my thesis. I rewrote some of my contextual review in accordance to the feedback i got from the last hand-in and I wrote a draft of an introduction. However the real thing I was focussing on was to restructure the entire thesis around the six fields of haunting, and enforce a structure that kept concise, focussed, relevant and always drew back to the White Cube.
I have always held that I wanted the research Journal to be a resource for the thesis, so I made a digital list of references which can be used to access all of the photos, videos and sounds that are referenced to in the thesis. I will also use this entry on my research journal, not to go over all of the interesting connections i uncovered during my writing of the first draft ( as that will be evident in reading my thesis), but to present the structure i was using to write the thesis.
Field structure:
1. Applied definition - Immediately explain what the field of haunting is, how it is revealed aurally and how it can be applied to the White Cube, or in visual art.
2. Characteristics - to contextualise the specific haunting field in larger conversations and present how it affects our experience within the space.
3. Evidence analysis - to provide evidence outside of my own research practice, providing evidence of artworks for example that challenge, demonstrate or interact with these ideas
4. Practical research - While it may have been referenced in other sections, this is where the practical research is formally investigated. Connections may also be made with other haunting fields
5. Applications/ Consequences - Project how an understanding of this field of haunting will Influence new curational concepts, thus fulfilling the goals of the research project.
Field structure:
Another thing I did in terms of structure, was that I made each of the haunting fields, its own Chapter, rather than just a sub-heading underneath the segment 'Sounds that Haunt'. To demonstrate this I want to show the current structure of the thesis in its current contents page. I thought it beneficial to also list all of the sub-headers under each 'chapter' as it provides a more detailed overview of the ideas explored.
Contents:
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
PROBLEMATISATION OF SILENCE IN THE WHITE CUBE
- The Aesthetic of Curation
- The Intersection of ideation and space
- Echoes in the Gallery
- Container and Content
- Ideological Entanglement
- Odd Furniture
- The Haunted Gallery
- Silence
SOUNDS THAT HAUNT
- The Sound of Revolution
- The Boundaries of experience
WHITE NOISE
- A Silent Haunting of Time
- Silent Screams
- Sonic Scars
- Composing Silence
- The Sensory Hierarchy
PRESENCE BEYOND PERCEPTION
- An Acousmatic Haunting of Place
- Unsound in the Non-Place
ENVIRONMENTAL ACOUSTICS
- A Modulated Haunting of Place
- Soundscape Analysis
- Acoustics of Displacement
- Echoes in Cyber-space
SUSPENDED RESOLUTION
- An Incongruous Haunting of Time
AFFECTIVE TONALITY
- A Psychogenic Haunting of Relativity
- Monuments of Nostalgia
KINAESTHESIA
- A Responsive Haunting of Relativity
- Anti-Social Social Events
- Tactile Social Acoustics
CONCLUSION
- Beyond the Echo chamber
- Curatorial Reflections
List of Figures
Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography
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