I want to interrogate and explore methods of adress and vocal presence in public, through a feministic approach. Which means I collect material and return it back to the people involved (a feminist feedback composition). Relating in practices of listening and participating. So, first I want to explore speech acts- a performative action of making things and space for it through embodied participation and vocal expression, together with others by applying practices related to it in a safe space. And second listening to our surroundings, presences that occupy the public space, how they get expressed, what these sounds reveal.
I want to interrogate and explore methods of adress and vocal presence in public spaces (either physical or digital?). Especially the presence of female voices in public spaces, what places they avoid and what sounds describe that absense or excluded form of address. My approach is to create a forum/space for that exploration to emerge through performative actions, meetings and sound walks and an archiving material of sounds from the area I am connected with. I focus on one specific area and public space through which I can act (like a base) and interact.
My approach is based on feedback and process-based actions unraveled throughout a period. This feedback comes from feministc approaches on listening and giving back to the people, relating in practices of listening and participating. So, first I want to explore speech acts- a performative action of making things and space for it through embodied participation and vocal expression, together with others by applying practices related to it in a safe space. And second listening to our surroundings, presences that occupy the public space, how they get expressed, what these sounds reveal, what do we understand.
Relation to publishing:
## How (example)
WARM UP YOUR VOICE
I want to create a temporary (public) space of expression and active involvement.
"speech act embraces the way the language is used and communicates what should be done and not what does this mean." Focus on sound and presence of the voice.
A series of meetings and trying outs of vocal workshops in moments of Leeszaal (language courses, wereldvrouwen, cafe NL). In the meetings we can also use material from previous meetings.
Exercises:
- Reading extracts or just discussing, saying a sentence in the native language, somebody else transcribing the vowels of that sentense, reading outloud the vowels all together, or only the person that transcribed them. If we read it all together we record ouselves and listening back to it. Like creating small chanting pieces every time we meet.
The vowels are a chain link between languages (the chinese can ).
- Reading the texts of how the female voice sounds like. Recording and listening.
- Opening up the process: streaming online and opening the possibility for others to react on it.
FEEDBACK COMPOSITION
Subverting the area by embedding sounds from other areas or online spheres (that maybe reflect an past image of the area or my imaginations). Relation of content with title and structure of Sound walk (private- public, gender separation, amplification of female voice, mediators, distorted voice)
Hypothesis1: I assume that gender representation is different in public spaces. What sounds reveal that? I assume that public and private reflect that.
Experiment: I listen and record carefully sounds that
Outcome:audio selection 1
Hypothesis2: I assume that this area was like zuidplein
outcome: recording other area, zuidplein
Hypothesis3: I assume demonstration or speech acts in public are male dominated
outcome: audio selection 2
Hypothesis4: I assume that
Experiment: questions to the people: where is that sound came from, what space it has existed and what has happened
Exploring the private and public at the same time
Why not in the end invite people to add their own recordings/ introduce recording practice to them in the warm up exercises
SOUNDWALK AND READING ROOM
Walking all together, one is reading extracts (one extract each group). Listening to the broadcast and waiting for somebody else to finish
A portable reading room (relation to publishing)
A walkable reading room
Everyone has a different interpretation when listening to surrounding sounds, because of the structures that define their identity. Patterns of sounds of the area that reveal these structures. And giving it back to them to describe and listen carefully to their everyday environment. Not just extracting, as an artist, fragments of their world.
first reflected in the landscape/soundscape of the area (private/public) and second tools for the inhabitants to get comfortable with it/discuss about it through meetings.
and then invite for going outside
through a feministic approach. Which means I collect material and return it back to the people involved (a feminist feedback composition).
ARCHIVE: Interface
Description from me in audio about my experience
## why (intention)
silencing of women/ establishment of spaces and roles because of the relation between space and identity/ gender construction. Gender separation in public space
approaches of listening and participation and specificity instead of formal articulation of rhetorics
speech act-> making things-> making space
urgency of specificity
## Larger context
My research lies on feministc approaches on voice and presence. Sound art
