the ether swaddles me | you | us: Becoming-Khora in Light, Sound, and Transmission Art Open Access
Kooi, Meredith (Spring 2021)
Abstract
This dissertation develops theoretical grounding centered on Plato’s khora for analyses of experiential, time-based art that uses light, sound, and the electromagnetic spectrum. It analyzes artworks by James Turrell, Pauline Oliveros, Joyce Hinterding, Tetsuo Kogawa, Anna Friz, and Sally Ann McIntyre using an assemblage of terms that I argue share affinities with khora. These terms are drawn from feminist science and technology studies, psychoanalysis, quantum physics, and philosophy, and include agential realism, O, the Unconscious, semiotic chora, Lichtung, and ether. These analyses present new considerations of the experience of Being, reopening questions about epistemology, ontology, experience, knowledge, perception, and objectivity. It argues that the way these artworks ask us to tune into the world and ourselves is essential in developing a theory of grounded and embodied, yet transcendental and metaphysical, Being.
Table of Contents
Preface: Making a Beginning 1
Introduction: Becoming-Khora 6
Positioning 15
Embodied Arrivals 26
Narrative 1 27
Narrative 2 31
The Maternal Embrace: Khora 33
Ether: Is everything connected? What world is this? 34
Approaching Unconscious Desires 41
Feminism 42
Listening 49
Form & Method 50
Transmission Art 52
Practice-Based Research 53
Chapter Overviews 59
Chapter 1. Khora 63
The Maternal Matter of Khora 74
Semiotic Chora 78
The Matrix 81
Khora as the Dream of the Unconscious 87
Khora as Irma's Open Mouth 90
Khora as Bion's O 93
The Bright Side of Khora 96
Conclusion 99
Chapter 2. James Turrell: The Cave, Khora, Inner Light, Lichtung, Paradoxical Light 100
Biography & Art Historical Context of James Turrell 106
Philosophies of Being 111
The Cave and Khora 111
Meditation Room 114
Light and Spirit 117
Paradoxical Light 125
Conclusion 128
Chapter 3. Pauline Oliveros: Learning to Listen & Sonic Entanglement 130
Pauline Oliveros History 135
On Listening 141
Deep Listening Band 145
The Soundscape vs The Sonosphere 148
Soundscape 148
Sonosphere 149
Quantum Listening in the Quantum Field 152
Conclusion 156
Chapter 4. Installation Art in/as the Quantum Field: Joyce Hinterding's Aeriology 158
Hinterding's Electromagnetism: The She of Nature 161
Joyce Hinterding's Artistic Practice 165
Rosalind Krauss, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" 169
Redefining the Field 171
Ether, Khora, Matrix, Void 177
Conclusion 178
Chapter 5. More from the Field: Three Transmission Artists 180
Tetsuo Kogawa: Micro-Democracies & Proximity 183
Anna Friz: Desiring Distance & Longing Language 190
Sally Ann McIntyre: Calls of Conscience & Transmitting Loss 197
Conclusion 208
Conclusion: I am a Quantum Listening Being 209
Places for Further Research 212
Bibliography 213
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