Reverb-Resonate: Sounding the Affective Frequencies of Migration

The project endeavors to create embodied conditions for communicating the ineffable psychophysiological complexity of lived experiences of migration to depart from reducing these experiences into verbal or visual narratives that cannot withhold their ineffability. The project’s aim is, thus, to capture, collect, and transform somatic markers—to stand in for psychophysiological changes—into sound as an affective medium to build sensory-performative experiences. As an interdisciplinary project embedded in the space of art-science-technology, the secondary aim is to denaturalize the legacy of scientific objectivity predicated on quantifying and datafying varied phenomena, including somatic markers. As such the project juxtaposes the logic of quantification and datafication against the materiality of the body by initially subscribing to and eventually departing from normative technological processes. The project, hence, reconfigures affective data into speculative acoustic spaces through the body that is already mediated by the technoscientific infrastructure.