Experiments in Aural Attention: Listening Away & Lingering Longer

Rebecca Collins

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Experiments in Aural Attention: Listening Away & Lingering Longer (2022)

Rebecca Collins

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This exposition puts forward ‘lingering longer’ and ‘listening away’ as potential means to remain with non-semantic possibilities, resisting the tendency to know immediately or to classify — to get lost, albeit momentarily in a more messy moment of being. At stake in this investigation is the recognition that our experience of the world, characterized through a depth of engagement, is not limited to how relations operate on the surface. The direction or orientation of our attention, the intensity with which it is applied, and how it weighs on and shapes our experience implies choice and agency. Experiment I: Aural + Orientation = Aurientation emulates the experience of a fictional gallery-goer who encounters the sound installation, This is for You (Don’t Treat it like a Telephone) (2012). This piece was developed at the advanced centre for performance and scenography studies (a.pass) in Brussels and aims to consider how sound and the voice shape our orientation, when mediated through objects. Experiment in Aural Attention II: Vibrant Practice details the process undergone for creating Listening to Water (2013), a site-specific investigation into ancient well sites located in Powys and Ceredigion, two counties in Mid West Wales. The work, made in collaboration with Jane Lloyd-Francis and Naomi Heath, considers how a turn towards site, via a process of tuning in to the Welsh landscape, can bring attention to overlooked aspects of our environment.

type	research exposition
keywords	Listening, artistic research, attention, creative practice, Creative Critical Writing, Aural Attention, Installation, Vibrant Practice, Practice-as-research
date	28/10/2022
published	28/10/2022
last modified	28/10/2022
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	University of Edinburgh
copyright	Rebecca Collins. Image Credits: Craig Kirkwood and Naomi Heath
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1248288/1735014
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1248288
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	27. 27
external link	https://linktr.ee/rebeccacollins99

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