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Creating with 'voice without subject': An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice.

This methodological paper connects posthuman conceptualizations of voice with artistic research and examines whether it opens toward different registers and levels of embodied and aesthetic forms of knowing that cut across normative accounts of what it means to know. We start from what Patti Lather...

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Published in:Qualitative Research Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 832 - 851
Main Authors: Broeckmeyer, Mariske, Van Goidsenhoven, Leni
Format: pictorial Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Aug2024
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          Voice
          Aesthetics
          Chronic Disease Psychosocial Factors
          Persons with Disabilities Psychosocial Factors
          Chronic Pain Psychosocial Factors
          Concept Formation
          Health Status
          Diaries
          Art
          Research
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      ab: This methodological paper connects posthuman conceptualizations of voice with artistic research and examines whether it opens toward different registers and levels of embodied and aesthetic forms of knowing that cut across normative accounts of what it means to know. We start from what Patti Lather calls 'a praxis of stuck places' and ask how to give voice to experiences such as chronic illness and pain, while at the same time disrupting representational forms of illness and pain. To investigate this, we first critically engage with the popular genre of the health diary and its representational form. Secondly, we explore how Lisa A. Mazzei concept of 'voice without subject' can support us in disrupting the normative and representational production of voice, while working with a failing voice. Finally, we analyze the sound installation, A Borrowed Diary —made by M. Broeckmeyer, and explore how it opens up alternative approaches to voice and chronic pain. We will argue that making 'voice without subject' work, touch, and resonate can impact the lives of people who often remain unheard, in that it acknowledges experiences and expressions that are mostly not validated. Creating with 'voice without subject' makes tangible how personal experiences, however, temporarily, contribute to the bigger picture of how we look at and listen to people with illnesses and/or disabilities.
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