International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Submission Number: 150
Submission ID: 200
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Given name Kate
Surname Fahey
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Title Mouthnotes
Format Other format
Main language English
Abstract This project’s starting point is An Cloch Labhrais (The Speaking Stone), a huge glacial erratic made from conglomerate puddingstone rock. Located in Co. Waterford in Ireland, it is known as a ‘truth’ telling oracle stone. According to legend, the dramatic crack in the stone occurred after a woman perjured herself in its presence – her untruth causing it to split in two. Mouthnotes reclaims the stone’s split, and reimagines it as a mouth from which a multitude of utterances and un/speakable things leak and spill. In this disorderly form of self-expression, non-conforming vocalisations flow up to her mouth and out through her tongue (Carson, 2005). Through the logic of the the vocal warm-up, the work simultaneously stutters and echoes the order of language, numeracy, and structured behaviour. Breaking away from preconfigured expectations and narratives, mouths and voices separate and reunite, unearthing an imagined enunciation (LaBelle, 2014). In the work, these plural erratic agencies emerge through a series of audio-visual polyvocal Mouthnotes.
Image Mouthnotes.jpg
Short biographies of the presenter(s)
  • Kate Fahey is an artist based between Kilkenny and London. Her work explores ways of meaning-making outwith scientific and rational knowledge systems – conventional ways of understanding the world rooted in patriarchal, white, western historical narratives. Through moving image, sound, language, print and sculptural practice, she investigate embodied, esoteric, folkloric and more-than-human ways of knowing. She has shown her work at spaces including ICA London, VISUAL Carlow, the Bluecoat Liverpool, CCArt Andratx, and Pallas Projects. She is senior lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.
Previous presentations or iterations of the research Pallas Projects Dublin, September 2022.
6x6 Project, 31st Edition, March 2023.
Additional information Mouthnotes (2022) is a single-channel audio-visual installation with multichannel sound (5 minutes 33 seconds).
The work can be viewed in entirity here: https://vimeo.com/758518941?share=copy
(please use headphones).
Spatial and technical requirements There are 3 potential formats:

1. An installation with projection and stereo 'rock' speakers (in a darkened room). I can provide the rock speakers; they look similar to these: https://www.kbaudio.co.uk/products/osd-audio-rs670-outdoor-rock-speakers-granite
See a similar installation here: https://www.katefahey.co.uk/Mouthnotes

2. Installed on a screen, with headphones (or additionally with the rock speakers).

3. Installed as stereo sound-only played through the rock speakers.
Potential risks or ethical concerns N/A
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