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- Title
NOISY FIELD EXPOSURES, or what comes before attunement.
- Authors
Zhang, Vickie
- Abstract
Before attunement comes exposure, the necessary fact of being a body. This photo essay is a play on two meanings of the word exposure: corporeal exposure and photographic exposure. I offer the latter in order to stay with moments of the former, exposing multiple scenes of misattunement from fieldwork in a small country town in regional Australia. Picking up the classic distinction in information theory between signal and noise, this piece pauses at the moment of indeterminacy before an event might be affirmed as valuable signal or discarded as unwanted static, weaving stories and images from the field with excerpts from Michel Serres' The Parasite, Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida and Paul Harrison's essay on Corporeal Remains. Ultimately, this essay's suggestion is that 'attunement' is not primarily about attunement. Instead, as a methodological principle, I offer that attunement initially – and sufficiently – gestures towards an attempt, a vulnerability and a commitment to the event of exposure.
- Subjects
SERRES, Michel, 1930-2019; BARTHES, Roland, 1915-1980; INFORMATION measurement; PHOTOGRAPHIC exposure; SMALL states; SMALL cities; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Cultural Geographies, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 4, p647
- ISSN
1474-4740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1474474020909494