My project proposal is about public speeches and their mediation through live streaming technologies. I am very interested in the voice and its ability to connect people but also to express the uniqueness of the speaker. In feminists movements speech-making workshops were helping women to express the violence in their home (private space) to the public domain that was dominated by male voices. They were privatizing listening and horizontal communication. The presence of them in public was very important. I must say that Greece isn't very far away from that gender/social division between private and public spaces. And this is what I want to practice and think on.
In occupy movements respectively speech and voice played an important role. It was not allowed to use amplifying devices in the public space so the crowd became the "human microphone", repeating what the speaker says. Youtube and live streaming was used for the fast communication of the public assemblies in internet and were perfectly fitted in the urgency of those actions. I see streaming as a bottom-up approach for establishing rapid (though temporary) communication. Similarly radio activists were broadcasting community radio shows or spreading political speeches legally or illegally.
So right now I am planning to organize workshops that will held conversations on restrictions, gender/social division in public spaces in NL and countries of origin. These conversations will be accompanied by the use of streaming technology and activities of mediation that include the body (like human microphone, transcription, speech-making).
