Vinyl disc with elaborations on the phenomenon of the infraordinary / 2015
This vinyl disc approaches the infraordinary from different levels that attempt to articulate it. This articulation ranges from the elaboration of mind maps, texts and images that could shed light on the phenomenon; to the form of the work itself.
The aim of the form of thesis work is to reflect the ephemeral quality of the infraordinary experience. That is why the medium chosen was an audio format on a vinyl disc.
Just as the infraordinary is not always present or visible, the medium of audio shares the same ephemeral quality when considering the permanence of the infraordinary. The vinyl disc provides coherence between the concept and the form. Working on the thesis in an audio format allowed me to express the concept within the concept’s framework. As I spoke about the infraordinary, the words were gone after being enunciated. Just as one experiences the infraordinary. One lives through an experience which passes, which is fleeting, and life continues, only leaving its residues for us to attach our memory to.
Since there is no permanent settlement to the phenomenon of the infraordinary, I needed a medium that could represent this temporary visibility as it talks about it. Something that is about the concept and talks at the same time about it. A continual loop. The vinyl disc has a duration of 43 minutes in total (23 minutes on side A and 21.09 on side B). This audio was made by reading texts that I wrote for my thesis and explaining all of the conceptual maps, images, and texts that I had been working on and kept on the walls of my studio to consider while speaking into a tape recorder.
This audio work is a conversation with myself while trying to make sense of the experience. I was explaining at the same moment as trying to understand how this concept can possess a temporary settlement and then be gone. But being absent not in the sense of leaving, but as a lack of visibility. The infraordinary as a latent state of visibility.
The infraordinary is something present but not always visible. However, it achieves a temporary settlement that allows its visibility and recognition by the subject-practitioner.
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