Sunday 10 November 2024, 2pm
‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind’ wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening in over fifty contributions.
This matinee launch of Bodies of Sound, hosted by the book's editors, Irene Revell and Sarah Shin, illuminates the thread of (sound) archives, recording, histories and memory that runs throughout the book. In an informal 'play and tell', contributors Christina Hazboun, Tomoko Hojo, Marysia Lewandowska and Syma Tariq will share a sound and discuss. Ranging from a score departing from a 1980 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono to field recordings from Palestine, these sounds and performances resonate in a circle.
Polish-born, London-based artist Marysia Lewandowska has been exploring the public functions of archives, museums and exhibitions focusing on the missing voices of women. Projects include the Women’s Audio Archive (2009), Undoing Property? (2013), It’s About Time the 58th Art Biennale in Venice (2019), Enthusiasts Archive (2019) and Dismantling the Faculty of Law (2021). She was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Cosmic House, London resulting in the sound installation how to pass through a door (2022). Other voice-based works include Welcome (2023) Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover and Recording 1989 Kunsthalle Baden Baden. She served as Professor of Art in the Public Realm at Konstfack, Stockholm 2003–13. She is a member of Tate Modern Advisory roup.
Christina Hazboun is a sonic agent. Her multifarious adventures through music and sound manifest through a web of activities aimed at amplifying the voices of the underheard from the SWANA and the global majority via texts, poetry, radio/sound collages, talks and curation.
Tomoko Hojo is an artist working within the fluidity between sound, music and performance. Recently, Hojo has explored making (women’s) silenced voices audible in history, focusing on Japanese women who have relations with the West, such as Yoko Ono and Sadayakko Kawakami. In 2023, She published ‘Unfinished Descriptions’, which documented a show based on the research about Yoko Ono through yoin press, and was a grantee of The Pola Art Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Agency for Cultural Affairs and many others.
Syma Tariq’s doctoral research at the Centre for Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), UAL, focused on the aural-archival forms and processes of knowledge production connected to the Partition of British India. Following her PhD she produced Delay Lines, a sound and text exhibit that responded to the audio holdings held at Tower Hamlets archives in east London. Her wider interest in sound and listening has developed by way of radio journalism, music and film programming, and forays into audio research, including the itinerant project A Thousand Channels. She is currently working with ECHO, Free University of Brussels, and occasionally DJs as Taxila.
