A Voice Is. A Voice Has. A Voice Does.; a performance-lecture in the area of vocal autobiography, exploring co-creative methodologies and lineages of autobiophony through performances, workshops and talks.
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 6381
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- (i) University of Exeter (2017, 2018, 2019), (ii) Norwegian Theatre Academy (2018), and (iii) the University of Portsmouth (2019).
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2017
- URL
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http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/drama/research/thomaidis-autobiophony
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Research Process
This Practice Research project investigates the intersections between autobiography, subjectivity-making, performed selfhood and voicing. Through the making and performance of a solo, intermedia performance-lecture, it proposes autobiophony as a new methodology for practice-based engagement with vocality for artist-scholars, teachers and trainees. It explores silencing, dysfluency, auditory racialisation, gendering and materiality through participatory and interactive vocal praxis, via workshop tasks embedded in the performance-lecture.
Research insights
Presented in academic, pedagogic and artistic contexts, the project:
• identified a new interdisciplinary area of research (vocal autobiography) and developed voicesensitive methodologies for investigating voice as part of one’s personal history (autobiophony);
• subverted academic ex-nomination and logocentric approaches to vocal knowledge and proposed tools for locating voice-based research within the researcher’s, teacher’s, artist’s or trainee’s intersectional positionality;
• facilitated co-creative methodologies of autobiophony through performances, workshops and talks and fostered a new lineage of autobiophonic practice through the work of voice lecturers and students.
Dissemination
1. The core output was the performance-lecture A Voice Is. A Voice Has. A Voice Does., presented at the: (i) University of Exeter (2017, 2018, 2019), (ii) Norwegian Theatre Academy (2018), and (iii) the University of Portsmouth (2019).
2. Exegetical writing on autobiophony:
• a 10,000-word article on the performance lecture in a peer-reviewed journal (2020)
• an autobiophonic entry for an international academic blog (2019)
• a short chapter (‘autobiophonic note’) in an edited collection (2020)
3. The theoretical context (vocal plurality and in-between-ness; critique of logocentrism; necessity for novel practice-based methodologies in vocal research) was set through:
• a co-edited collection, including a co-authored introduction, a single-authored chapter and a short contribution to a ‘polyphonic conclusion’ (2015)
• an editorial note on the rise of the voice-practitioner scholar and the intersectional positioning of contemporary vocal research (2019)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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