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/hweTH

/’(h)weTH is a collaborative work of visual and sound art produced by R. Armstrong (USA/BE) and Lauren Redhead (UK). The work combines an installation, two video projections, four channel sound, and an optional solo performance part, in order to create an experience that is simultaneously aural and visual, in all of its elements.

The work investigates the incidence and significance of object voice in art works. It does so partly through the use of text and speech as material for the work, but it also considers the presence of object voice, and related concepts of breath and body, in images and objects. In particular it considers the importance of object voice within minority discourse and offers conclusions as to the violence done to object voice when speech and text are given prominence and conversely the violence done to speech in the foregrounding of object voice and its consequences. It furthermore investigates the suitability of artworks over traditional or written research to investigate these concepts.

Due to the installation aspect of the work, a DVD alone cannot fully represent the piece: as well as a combination of audio and visual elements, it represents a collaborative approach to working with sound and image that means its research outcomes lie as much in the processes of making the work as they do in any one performance. The implications of the work /’(h)weTH for addressing process as a compositional material itself are further demonstrated by the acoustic work entoptic landscape which develops and addresses the processes arising from /’(h)weTH including: spatial relationships, object voice as a remainder of speech, and the impact of rhythm on non-rhythmic material.