Weak Force 2

Research background: There has been a significant rise in group-based and collective art practice that challenges conventional methodologies and ideas of individual authorship in art. These enterprises approach art as an expanded form of intellectual activity by capitalizing on group dynamics and collective research. Research contribution: The Weak Force 2 builds upon previous iterations of Weak Force projects by the UFT collaborative group. The artists produced a sonic installation as part of the Guilford International Music Festival. This installation sculpturally and conceptually revisited Luigi Rusollo's 'sound intoners' or 'intonarumori' on the 100th year anniversary of his groundbreaking manifesto 'The Art of Noises'. The Weak Force 3 explored Russolo's basic premise of a systematic poetics of noise through sounds recorded in Canada, Australia, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand. Vibrational speakers and buckets were used to reconfigure these sounds from the general field into a textual composition within the Lewis Elton Gallery. Research significance: The significance of this research is that group-based practice was used to extend and combine the practices of eight artists working across four different continents. The resulting exhibition explored ideas of disjunction and synchronicity by presenting abstracted sound recordings from across the globe within an installation context.