Interdimensional Broadcasting: Sonic Portals and Ancestral Knowledge

This thesis support document addresses the iterative installation series Sonic Portals that uses time-based media to explore intergenerational knowledge transmission. Sonic Portals: QRV (2024) is a temporary structure that uses carefully considered materials – felted wool, wood, structural lashing techniques and textile layering, it is framed by two larger sculptural entities constructed of felled branches and beeswax dipped cedar boughs. Within the structure is a multichannel sound installation that gathers and synthesizes recorded media from haunted and energetically charged environments. Through processes of editing, distortion, looping, and temporal manipulation the installation invites the listener to engage with the unseen and the Beyond. Informed by Indigenous knowledge and lived experience, Sonic Portals investigates interdimensional memory, material practice as haunting, and the non-linear potentials of time-based media. It discusses an artistic methodology that shifts language around media production towards acts of gathering, acknowledgement, and spiritual reciprocity. This thesis project builds places for interconnection and haunting as decolonial practice within colonial institutions.