It is a collection of audio recordings coming from meetings I co-organised, internet sources, podcasts and soundwalks on amplification of female and collective voices, by Angeliki. 'Revisiting podcasts' questions the establishment of authoritative/male voices that create exclusive speech platforms, along the assumption that voices have to be rational, authoritative (voice of expertise) etc. The intervention that changes the paradigm becomes that revisit the sound material produced in situated amplification meetings and soundwalks. Every podcast includes the previous one, on a way that creates repetetive layers of the same material. Creating presence by repetetion.'Revisiting podcasts' are upsetting binaries such as male/female, expert/amateur, rational/irrational

Podcast is a series of episodes of moments of an online audio archive overlayered by my voice as a narrator.

Thesis

How can we engage politically with the exclusion of specific (female) voices from the public sphere through our own voice? Here I document my attempts to create a safe common space of discussing that topic in Leeszaal, that I consider a diverse public space, where we can explore our public voices in situ, and trying out vocal performances. I am doing that together with Christina Karagianni, who is also from Greece and with whom I share similar experiences of silencing. We combine our practices -her practice lies on choreography and mine on social interaction and sound- and try vocal exercises and reading in moments of Leeszaal.women from Leeszaal. Structure of the meetings: reading extracts in random order, personal associations and experiences with voice in public, warm up, say a personal sentence in any language, transcribe only the vowels, read back the vowels, sing all together the score of vowels.

I recorded sounds from West Rotterdam, while walking around a neighborhood for several days. This action was part of my first experiments when I was in attempt to understand how gender binaries regarding voice are reflected in space, especially public space.

Audio collection