hear/here, gathering the commonplace: towards a new understanding of affect and embodied encounter through constructing non-narrative sound installation by Ana Gabrielle Rutter

This practice research PhD employs concerns of affect theory, sound/fine art, aural ecologies and emergent praxis, while utilising an embodied crip/neurodivergent approach. Investigating sound and affect through the lens of Masumi’s description of microperceptions (from Leibnitz) and linking this to the multifacetedness of aural ecologies. Working with/through gathered materials, exploring initially microperceptions as triggers of non-conscious affective response, and through the praxis adding other elements that inform the making of original artworks as sites of affective encounter. This is a constantly developing, heuristic following, through tests and experimentation for the unfolding of a unique approach to research and creation of fine art works that explore and explicate my/our non-conscious affective response to our quotidian sonic environment. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s Smooth and Striated symbiotic spaces, to create a scaffolding for working with; affecting slippery ‘stuff’, this bodymind, and to maintain the affecting qualities of the materials. The praxis centres on gathered sounds and images from spaces/situations, where these are less important than the small things that might be occurring within them. The sites/titles of gathering; Early Tests & Experiments, The Cairngorms, Dyffryn, About, Coventry, and Gathering Closer. From these audio-visual works have been constructed and exhibited investigating affect and embodied encounter. This submission, recognising and exploring the porosity/permeability of sounds/spaces/time/bodies, is a drawing together of materials gathered across the research and considering new knowledge/approaches in an exhibition and Research Catalogue expositions as sites for the thesis, which sets the practice in its research context.

this will be the second page of things from Coventry - currently it is housing the re worked video versions of the work which was shown December 2020 - Febuary 2021 in the Parkside Atrium.

This is the link back to the Coventry first page

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