Exposition

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

Rebecca Collins
open exposition

About this exposition

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.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsListening, artistic research, attention, creative practice, Creative Critical Writing, Aural Attention, Installation, Vibrant Practice, Practice-as-research
date28/10/2022
published28/10/2022
last modified28/10/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of Edinburgh
copyrightRebecca Collins. Image Credits: Craig Kirkwood and Naomi Heath
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1248288/1735014
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1248288
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue27. 27
external linkhttps://linktr.ee/rebeccacollins99


Simple Media

id name copyright license
1248301 Experiments in Aural Attention - Version 2-HD Rebecca Collins and Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1249434 Listening to Water Poster Image Naomi Heath CC BY-NC-ND
1249455 Listening to Water Performance Aberystwyth Arts Centre CC BY-NC-ND
1249471 Resonating Bowl Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1249481 Experiments in Aural Attention: Three Figures Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1249491 Experiments in Aural Attention Green Glitter Surface Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1249503 Experiments in Aural Attention: Gallery Goer Attention Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1250563 Experiments in Aural Attention: Polka Dot Shower Curtain Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1250569 Experiments in Aural Attention: This is for you don't treat it like a telephone Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1250571 Experiments in Aural Attention 2 Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1250573 Experiments in Aural Attention: Coffee and Cigarettes Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1250574 Experiments in Aural Attention: Speaking Tubes Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1251515 Ffynon Tyfi Rebecca Collins & Jane Lloyd Francis CC BY-NC-ND
1251518 I do not write Rebecca Collins & Naomi Heath CC BY-NC-ND
1251521 Ffynon Gadfarch Rebecca Collins & Jane Lloyd Francis CC BY-NC-ND
1251527 Car moving Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1251528 Sheep in field Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1251530 Water Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1269409 Sonorous Dens Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1270700 installation image Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1270702 Outline of installation Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1270959 Outline Installation Sylvain Boisvert CC BY-NC-ND
1270962 This is for you outline Sylvain Boisvert CC BY-NC-ND
1270977 Rotated Outline Syvain Boisvert All rights reserved
1271065 Field Notes Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1271082 Yoghurt Pot Telephones Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1271088 Early Experiments Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1271267 Initial exhibition structure Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1271345 backgroundtest Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1271360 Experiments in Aural Attention_silver pipe Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1271937 cropped background test2 Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1271956 tom bag head Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1272004 Track IV_edited Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1272161 Experiments in Aural Attention 5 Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1272517 edited listening image_cropped Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1272525 Experiments in Aural Attention 6 Craig kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1272549 Experiments in Aural Attention 30 Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1272566 Track V_editec Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1273016 handwater Naomi Heath & Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1275116 Well Mouth Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1275148 Touching Ancestry Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1275176 expoflyer 08-05-15 Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1275178 back flyer 18-05-15 Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282124 Edited version of glitter image Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1282171 Listening to Water Notebook Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282180 IMG-0221 Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282195 Skull image Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282198 Gallery Image Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282278 IMG_2033 Naomi Heath CC BY-NC-ND
1282280 Peter Scott Gallery Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282295 Snow Mountain Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282309 Gallery Glitter addition Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282350 Grass well Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1282924 Books image exhibition Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1282931 Person books Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1282935 Books person Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1282946 Lingering people Craig Kirkwood CC BY-NC-ND
1536896 29042-blue-arrow-blue-left-clipart Vector Designer. CC BY-NC-ND
1553032 The Cosy Corner Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1553035 You are Irreplaceable Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1553038 Help Me Rebecca Collins CC BY-NC-ND
1553717 Track I Rebecca Collins, Jane Lloyd Francis and Naomi Heath All rights reserved
1553890 Track II Rebecca Collins, Naomi Heath & Jane Lloyd Francis All rights reserved
1553914 Track III Rebecca Collins, Naomi Heath, and Jane Lloyd Francis All rights reserved
1738393 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.02.12 na All rights reserved
1738397 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.03.58 na All rights reserved
1738399 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.04.54 na All rights reserved
1738401 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.04.54 na All rights reserved
1738422 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.04.54 na All rights reserved
1738467 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.04.54 na All rights reserved
1738469 Screenshot 2022-09-20 at 13.04.54 na All rights reserved
1738916 Figure 10 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1738970 Figure 10 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741093 Figure_13 Craig Kirkwood All rights reserved
1741365 Figure_14 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741378 Figure_15 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741391 Figure 16_v1 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741402 Figure 17_v2 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741550 Figure 17_v2 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741602 Figure 18_v2 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741620 Figure 19_v2 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741690 Figure_21 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741696 Figure_21 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741715 Figure_22 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1741760 Ending_v1 Rebecca Collins All rights reserved
1743970 Figure_14_cropped Craig Kirkwood All rights reserved
1743974 Figure_15_cropped Craig Kirkwood All rights reserved

Comments are only available for registered users.