Professor of Sound, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK
Artistic Epistemologies: the body as a guarantor for criticality and legitimacy of artistic research (in englischer Sprache; Themenschwerpunkt Artistic Research)
This talk will discuss the body as a guarantor of criticality and legitimacy of artistic research, and particularly but not exclusively, of artistic research from and with sound. In this way, I aim to move criticality from its determination in relation to canons and data: knowledge ontologies determined by a notion of objectivity, measurability and the scientific, towards the possibility and impossibility of the body, its unreliable and uncertain reality. This identifies the body, as physicality, as agent, as subjectivity, and as experiential skin, in its unique instability but plural connectivity, as a corpus of knowledge; and it expands knowledge, through the physicality of listening, sounding, walking, being noisy, silent and hearing things into the tacit, the contingent and the lived. Drawing on the quotidian, the domestic, the vague, the feminine, such body-measured-criticality of artistic knowledge veers off the straight line of scientism, and gains legitimacy instead in the unreliability of a felt and plural reality that is more possible than actual, and maybe even impossible, but nevertheless real.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in listening and sound making as a socio-political practice. She works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, where different disciplines meet to find undisciplined new knowledge possibilities. She writes articles and papers, books, texts and text-scores for performance and publication. Her most recent books are Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands, Bloomsbury (2023) and Unperforming the Dream House, ActiveRat (2023). She is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. www.salomevoegelin.net
