Voice and uncertainty: processes of voice in artists’ nonfiction moving image
View/ Open
Mann2017.pdf (10.01Mb)
Date
28/11/2017Item status
Restricted AccessEmbargo end date
14/01/2023Author
Mann, Lyndsay
Metadata
Abstract
Voice is an inconstant yet constantly performative material; it is our internally-housed,
liminal technology. ‘Processes of voice’ is the term I develop throughout the
text of this thesis to articulate materialities of voice and methods of address within
processes of practice in artists’ moving image that ‘give voice’ to material and non-material
forms. I interrogate this in relation to key concepts in Philosophy of Mind to
address the complex ways in which bodily skills and action inform perception and
thought to explore an account of perception and process in relation to voice. I examine
the liminal, inconstant, and uncertain in subjective experience, and the ways in which
this is extended into the social through a politics of embodied practice harnessed in
moving images. I make a case for the uncertain I-voice, which engages the fully
embodied and openly subjective, to challenge established narratives and conventions of
address, and the power and knowledge dynamics that structure them. I come to focus
on the uncertain acousmatic I-voice in moving image, which through its presentness,
intimacy and acknowledgement of uncertainty relinquishes the acousmêtre’s threat of
control to share a liminal territory of destabilized authority with the viewer. This is also
explored in and through my own moving image work, A Desire For Organic Order
(2015), a single screen video, which contributes to the overall thesis.