Recently my efforts have revolved around very immaterial aspects of my work. I was writing scenarios for my submission for Creative Science 2011 conference in July in Nottingham. I hope to present my project and my working method there... In the conference paper I managed to fit only two out of three stories wrote for my final project (to be honest, it was also a bit of time issue—not only space). The stories got some narrative, some action, some characters and raise some questions—everything a science-fiction story for my purposes really needs. I will publish them as soon I manage to write the last one, which should not be too long from now.
Apart from that the stategy for presenting the project during the final show in Rochelle School in June has been giving me a nasty headache since the end of March. Eventually, I decided to do what needed to be done anyway and just go for it—I will stage a performance in the gallery. It should be something in between a scientific procedure designed to sell sophisticated products and a bureaucratic scheme introduced partly against peoples' will. I intend to ask my sister, Dotty, and my friend, Tine, who are actors and already took part in recording previous voice-overs for Future Soundscapes (interview on the tube).
With this performance approach I hope to achieve two things:
1] to convince people that things are going to change in the future in terms of our soundscapes and our hearing;
2] to get people to think about the future of our hearing and share their ideas about potential changes we might undergo.
This means my goal is to raise some awareness about hearing and receive some valuable feedback from people. Because during the "Work in Progress" show the feedback was rather unsatisfactory and I did not feel I managed to communicate the message across, this time I wish to interact with the audience on a different level. I will try to engage them through happening (a performative piece, where the audience is actively participating in the process). Having much better contact with the viewer (i.e.: more time, viewer's attention and resources to explain Hope this works), I hope to collect viable, detailed, personal and trustworthy feedback.
Another thing is that the theme of my project drifted away from soundscapes in general and therefore, should be renamed. Because currently it is all about our aural faculty, I decided to name it: "The End of Hearing". Scary, huh?
