Sounding Out Vacancy: Performing (anything but) Empty Space

Julieanna Preston

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This exposition translates the intentions and experience of the 2014 performance Sounding Out Vacancy as a piece of spatial writing structured by four voices operating in unison to contest ‘emptiness’ as a condition of interior space. The seven-day performance occurred in a street-level urban central business district retail shop that, like many other ‘for lease’ properties in the city, had stood empty for several months. Its glass façade obscured from view, the performance broadcast sounds continuously from the interior space to the general public as an alternative advertisement of the shop’s availability. During the nine-to-five work day, sounds were harvested from the interior where construction hand tools and material surfaces interacted as a process of virtual renovation. While the city slept, the ambient sounds of the space persisted and put the shop’s vacancy into question.

type	research exposition
keywords	sound, surface, performance, materiality, interior
date	29/12/2019
published	28/12/2019
last modified	28/12/2019
status	published
affiliation	College of Creative Arts, Massey University
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/353552/353553
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.353552
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	19. 19
external link	www.julieannapreston.space

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