RESONANCE OR RESISTANCE: VOCAL DISLOCATIONS AS MEANING DISLOCATIONS FORESHADOWED IN THE SPACE OF PERFORMING ARTS
[di Katerina Maniou] Introduction The following six units articulate a path from the “objective” to the “objectified” voice, forming a metaphor about passages from different concepts of selfhood to emerging bare life morphologies. Dislocation-versions are filtered by the dipole of resonance and resistance, as “resonating with or against”, in an attempt to bond materiality to meaning, resistance and voice. Examples from sci-arts are deployed to critically codify novel dehumanization forms, foreshadowed in vocal use. The objective voice Voice materializes a bet: Either losing yourself or winning the right to speak in first person (J. P. Sartre). In Homeric epics, a phrase of freeing beauty follows the completion of sentences emanated either by gods or humans: «and her sayings flew away like birds». It is a voice that transcends subjectivity and offers a residual substance towards its original belonging, the common space of breath. If according to Aristotle «voice is a particular sound emanated by something with a soul» (Aristotle, 2003: 165) then voice as “transformed breath” is re-offered to openness in the ephemeral form of a personalized wave. Voice maintains a metaphysical function which attains an objective quality, by rendering the resonating subject into «a talking extract of cosmos» (Axelos,… Continua a leggere
