The Nexus of Textile and Sound Performative Relationships between Art, Architecture and Embodied Knowledge

Abstract

The work examines the performative relationships between textile and sound as spatial practices that connect art, architecture, and embodied knowledge. The arts-based research project, entitled The Nexus of Texile and Sound, posits an alternative understanding of texiles and sound as interwoven material processes rather than additive media. Textiles are approached as responsive systems that react to tension, touch, and bodily movement, sound is conceived as a vibrational phenomenon unfolding through resonance between body, space, and matter. It is evident that both domains share structural principles, such as texture, repetition/loop, space, skin, and membrane-like formations that actively shape spatial perception. The installation of settings within the project functions as temporary and reversible spatial configurations, in which audiences participate as co-producers of experience. The present study contributes to artistic research discourses on performative space, material agency and non-linear embodied perception by foregrounding sensory engagement and processual spatial transformation.