What Really Counts? was a sound art installation created in 2019 through a collaboration between a sociologist and a multidisciplinary artist, working with in-depth interviews with young men recorded as part of a British feminist social research project in 1990, exploring sexualities and the threat of HIV/AIDS. In this article, we describe the evolution and staging of the sound art installation project, situating it within interdisciplinary literatures on the use of sociological archives and reanimation of analogue media in a digital age. Working within a fractured tradition of curated sociology, we consider the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration for refreshing sociological analytic practice, revealing the unrealised potential of archived data sets and utilising temporal displacement as a generative analytic strategy for feeling history. We are working with a 30-year time span characterised by a stretching of intergenerational experience in relation to expectations for and mediation of sex/gender. The project attempts to realise the potential for an experimental sociological practice through the staging of open-ended past–present encounters.

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通过声音艺术装置重温年轻男子气概：什么才是真正重要的？

什么才是真正重要的？是一位社会学家和一位多学科艺术家于 2019 年合作创作的声音艺术装置，对年轻男性进行了深度采访，作为 1990 年英国女权主义社会研究项目的一部分录制，探讨性行为和艾滋病毒/艾滋病的威胁。在本文中，我们描述了声音艺术装置项目的演变和分阶段，将其置于关于社会学档案的使用和数字时代模拟媒体复兴的跨学科文献中。在策划社会学的破碎传统中，我们考虑跨学科合作的潜力，以刷新社会学分析实践，揭示存档数据集未实现的潜力，并利用时间位移作为感受历史的生成分析策略。我们正在研究一个 30 年的时间跨度，其特点是与性/性别的期望和调解相关的代际经验的延伸。该项目试图通过举办开放式的过去与现在的遭遇来实现实验性社会学实践的潜力。