Bio-Critical Incidents

Bio-critical Incidents (BCI) is a retrospective method and perspective within the context of environmental sound arts. These recordings amplify events and circumstances that are commonly silenced within human and nonhuman, mediated encounters. BCI’s demonstrate process. They function to disrupt and agitate environmental sound art's historically aestheticised outputs. Noise, microphone handling, severed cables, discussions, falling over; inaudible marginalised aspects, re-claimed as creative content for artistic production.

BCI’s are not the recording subject per se but the surrounding incidents and peripheral hearings. Emphasising failure, they inevitably encounter biography, loss and uncertainty, and harness such aspects as critical material for reflection and production. BCI’s are not autoethnographic documents for the sake of saying “I am there”. Rather, they are concerned with the specific agencies and entanglements bound within the process of arts practice. They aim to produce an anti-aesthetic that is not pleasant on the ear but necessary for greater understandings towards the intra-medial dynamics at play within asymmetrical encounters of humans and nonhumans.

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