This project explores and develops a collaborative platform for live and digital voices to meet, mix, entangle, separate in a fluid process. The project is part of the NTNU ARTEC initiative that promotes art and technology integration at NTNU. Voice, in this context, refers to the act and action of vocal production and further to concepts of subjectivity, identity and cultural/gendered/race upbringing and background. The first outcome of the project was a performance as research IN FRONT OF ME presented at the International Fitzmaurice Voicework Conference Freedom & Focus July 2018.
The focus in 2019-2020 is to develop the project for online exhibition and academic reflection. We have discovered a gratifying notch and surprisingly helpful gap between us that we would like to unravel and reflect further upon and co-write an article about. The transdisciplinary collaboration has resulted in a productive entangled dialogue in which the initial expectation of one voice-monologue transformed into a multilayered digital and live storytelling. We have both discovered new – on beforehand unknowable – voices from within and gained new expressive agency in the fluid va-et-vient of impressions and expressions in the transdisciplinary exchange. The project outcome validates that the expected gap between protagonist/auto-ethnographer and witness/digital media artist was disrupted and a common ground developed in the gap itself. In 2019-2020 we will edit the digital material and integrate this in Ellen's book chapter: In Front of Me: Fitzmaurice Voicework as transformative practice, which will be published in Kapadocha, C. (ed.) 2019/2020: Somatic Voicework in Performance Research and Beyond, Routlegde/Taylor&Francis.
