Space, Sound, and the Home(less)

Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn

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Following Rosalyn Deutsche, this essay examines how the binary opposition enforced by the boundaries of domesticity enforce containment and enclosure, particularly of excluded bodies, i.e. the homeless. This enclosure, which is read through Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the decorporealization of space, is enforced primarily through a logic of visuality and compartmentalization. This essay proposes sound as a means to counter these states of enclosure. Using concepts of dwelling (Heidegger), weaving (Ingold), and nomadism (Braidotti), a sonic recorporealization is developed through personal, domestic sound art experimentation and instrument building. The results and repercussions are then examined in the context of the singular home, its local community, and society more broadly, wherein sound is proposed as a means to instigate practices of spatial recorporealization.

type	research exposition
keywords	Space, sound, materiality, dwelling, nomadism
date	29/06/2020
published	30/03/2021
last modified	30/03/2021
status	published
share status	private
copyright	Kevin Fairbairn
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/941753/941754
published in	Journal of Sonic Studies
portal issue	21. Issue 21

id	name	copyright	license
941758	Introduction	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
941762	Dwelling	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
941861	sorna	Kurecewlik81, distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license	All rights reserved
941867	sorna homemade	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
942703	Nomadism	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
942712	Meta(l)morphosis	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
942723	Conclusion	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved
1190113	zurna_photo_jss	Kevin Fairbairn	All rights reserved

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