The resonant room

Abstract

This thesis looks at aural string installation as a medium and uses it to implement research within an Australian context. The title of this thesis, The Resonant Room, implies an intertextual strategy in developing this research that is situated within the ethos of aural string installation. Aural string installation as a medium is especially particular to several artists who live and work in Australia and the Netherlands, respectively. While this thesis does explore the work of all known aural string artists, its concern follows this into an intertextual account of the main themes inherent to aural string installation that are then applied to the specific context of Sydney, Australia. This strategy is undertaken through research that also entails making art with a reflective and speculative practice within the context in which it is made. This thesis then looks at strategies of experiential participation with aural string installation as a speculative critical and observational practice that concerns itself with both human artifice and Nature within the context of Sydney as a post-Fordist post-colonial country.