Infomanticism: rethinking the Romantic subject through situated sound works

In recent examples of my practice-based art research, I voice radically reconfigured landmark historic texts in a variety of contexts in London. I explore these in relation to my concept of 'infomanticism', a modern variant of romanticism that I am testing as potential for socio-political resistance from within our neoliberal networked database economy of subjective attention. Can such art methodologies harness textual noise as a block to monstrous neoliberalism and fascism, or do they remain politically romantic and narcissistic? Recent feminist and indigenous methodologies afford ways of being together with the mess of consumption that nevertheless remains open to alteration.

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Paper presented at Sound, Language and the Making of Urban Space conference at University of Copenhagen/Museum of Copenhagen, August 24-25, 2023

How to cite: Annabel Frearson: "Infomanticism: rethinking the Romantic subject through situated sound works" in Parby, Jakob Ingemann (ed.): Conference Proceedings: Sound, Language and the Making of Urban Space, August 24-25, Copenhagen 2023. University of Copenhagen and Museum of Copenhagen, 2024.

ANNABEL FREARSON, Annabel Frearson recording audio book of 'Sic' by River Thames, 2018-19

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Annabel Frearson recording audio book of 'Sic' by River Thames, 2018-19