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Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 2016

This paper investigates the relationship between art practice and research with a focus on the ro... more This paper investigates the relationship between art practice and research with a focus on the role of sound in socially engaged art and the creation of artworks in collaboration with communities. Framing an area of sound and visual art through concepts on voice beyond language by John Cage and Brandon Labelle, the text employs selected art projects by Mikhail Karikis as case studies to examine methodologies which engage members of different communities and generate ambitious art projects and research which circulate through networks of international art biennials, museum/gallery exhibitions, as well as art and academic journals, specialist conference presentations and popular media. Selected projects include Sounds from Beneath (2012) and Children of Unquiet (2014), created in England and Italy respectively, investigating the effects of post-industrialisation on groups of people connected with specific sites of production. Examining these projects, the paper explores the role of sound performance in channeling communal experiences caused by mass unemployment, rapid industrial change, depopulation and the loss of community cohesion, and analyses their art and research outcomes.A new worker The previous generation presented themselves as bearers of a trade in which they were able to identify themselves and even take pride. The economic shocks of recent decades, the energy and environmental crises arriving at the tail end of Western de-industrialisation and the impressive technological advances which transformed assembly lines, robotised production and caused waves of redundancies reducing personnel, have all contributed to the composition of a new worker: flexible, casualised, interchangeable, without entitlements (i.e. holidays, sick leave or redundancy provision). The new worker is hired often at their own risk, by invisible or virtual employers or by smaller firms working for bigger conglomerate corporations. The new worker is often responsible for providing their own infrastructure that allows them to execute the work or provide the service on behalf of and in the name of the employer. The new worker is engaged part-time or with zero-hour contracts, for short and fixed periods of time, and no longer than the period which would legally oblige their bosses to offer them contracts with more entitlements.

Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, 2016

This paper investigates the relationship between art practice and research with a focus on the ro... more This paper investigates the relationship between art practice and research with a focus on the role of sound in socially engaged art and the creation of artworks in collaboration with communities. Framing an area of sound and visual art through concepts on voice beyond language by John Cage and Brandon Labelle, the text employs selected art projects by Mikhail Karikis as case studies to examine methodologies which engage members of different communities and generate ambitious art projects and research which circulate through networks of international art biennials, museum/gallery exhibitions, as well as art and academic journals, specialist conference presentations and popular media. Selected projects include Sounds from Beneath (2012) and Children of Unquiet (2014), created in England and Italy respectively, investigating the effects of post-industrialisation on groups of people connected with specific sites of production. Examining these projects, the paper explores the role of sound performance in channeling communal experiences caused by mass unemployment, rapid industrial change, depopulation and the loss of community cohesion, and analyses their art and research outcomes.A new worker The previous generation presented themselves as bearers of a trade in which they were able to identify themselves and even take pride. The economic shocks of recent decades, the energy and environmental crises arriving at the tail end of Western de-industrialisation and the impressive technological advances which transformed assembly lines, robotised production and caused waves of redundancies reducing personnel, have all contributed to the composition of a new worker: flexible, casualised, interchangeable, without entitlements (i.e. holidays, sick leave or redundancy provision). The new worker is hired often at their own risk, by invisible or virtual employers or by smaller firms working for bigger conglomerate corporations. The new worker is often responsible for providing their own infrastructure that allows them to execute the work or provide the service on behalf of and in the name of the employer. The new worker is engaged part-time or with zero-hour contracts, for short and fixed periods of time, and no longer than the period which would legally oblige their bosses to offer them contracts with more entitlements.