Data · dataset · 2026
In fleeting coherence: navigating spatial and infrastructural conditions through indisciplined sonic performance
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.17034/32641032.v1
This thesis demonstrates an exploration of the temporal and spatio-political conditions of sonic performance in and around urban infrastructural environments.
Description
Where much so-called politically engaged art making is pragmatically satisfied with ‘playing’ the art system toward accommodation, this work seeks to counter that tendency by foregrounding its own fragilities and temporariness as it is re-lived and re-formulated for each specific, resistant context.
Through experimental writing and experiments in the containing architectures of that writing, namely video making; audio recording; incidental annotation; sampling and re-sampling of spoken and unspoken texts, a type of embodied practice research is defined in its ostensive doing and the conditions allowing for that doing. Through each dimension of the work, I explore the possibilities for making transient, performed, aesthetic and often dismissible interventions in urban infrastructure, in a manner which does not shirk the difficulties of working outside the ‘securities’ and ‘rewards’ usually associated with aesthetic activity.
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The thesis, then, engages with an ongoingness and itinerant siting to investigate the conditions of possibility surrounding making and performance, defining such formulations as trespassic undermaking, where a more-than-legal approach is implemented. In Fleeting Coherence proposes an indisciplined method. By indisciplined, and in contrast to interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary, I mean that the method is one of approaching from a position of sonic performance and maintaining that position.
It is in part a rejection of a disciplining or disciplinary thinking. Crucially, the method is not undisciplined, rather, this indisciplinarity is a way to confront and navigate the conditions of a life world as it is, through sonic performance and in a wide range of contexts. Therefore, this body of research explores the action of sonic performance itself as a vehicle for the articulation of research and unproductive cultural production. <br><br>
Links
Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17034/32641032.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Earth & Environmental Science · Engineering · Engineering · Engineering · Humanities · Humanities · Humanities
- Inferred from text
- Audio 75% · Musicology and ethnomusicology 76% · Video 75%
Provenance · 3 source records, 16 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/32641032 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/32641032 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/32641032 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:360306 | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (76%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:audio | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:video | enrichment · zivahub uct ac za | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |