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The workshop is a public moment of the artistic research "Voicing complexities", which questions gender classifications through sound. As a starting point, we will listen to public sound libraries and data sets. We will observe their categorisations and the narratives they reinforce. Later, together with Mitsitron and Ester Venema, in a safer facilitated space, we will record (our own) sounds of exclusion: sounds that fail, refuse, reject, resist the performance of the norm. Using recorders, phones, laptops and various prompts, we will collect different perspectives, positions, stories, experiences to listen to together later. These recordings can initiate a counter-archive of sounds: A reference point for listening and sound making that challenges binary structures.
Ester Venema (NL, 1985, she/they) works as an artist in various collectives. Together with the collective 'Sunflower Soup' she explores the area between art and activism: Sunflower Soup often organise meetings where they invite the public to collaborate and think about a particular theme, such as the exhibition "Plantiarchy", where more than a thousand people built a papier-mache forest and collectively imagined a speculative future where plants have power. Ester is also part of Slow Frequencies, a collective that uses sound as a means of connection and slowing down as resistance.
https://sunflowersoup.org/
Mitsitron (GR, they/them) is currently investigating queer methodologies for sound making, coming from a need for affection with bodies, the living world, technologies and soundwaves. Sound design interventions becomes their way to question binaries, research how listening is political and frames what is considered normal, desired, noise and monstrous. They perform, organise workshops and through the Platform for Extratonality they program dissident sound events . They are member of Varia, a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology.
https://www.mitsitron.com
This project is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.