“Magnetic Voice”: Resonance and the Politics of Art

The article investigates what I conceptualize as the “magnetic voice” in reference to Voice of My Father (2012) by Zeynel Do？an and Orhan Eskik？y as well as the audio-visual artworks by Sarkis, Kutlu？ Ataman and Dilek Winchester. The “magnetic voice” is considered as an excess, as a “surplus sign” in the horizon of the visible and at the edge of the audible. Concerned with the aesthetic, performative, and political significance of the voice as sound-beyond-language, the discussion is centered on the agency of the silenced voice as an attempt to pin down the disciplined/disciplining voice and to hear repressed and silenced voice