FM[X]: What Would A Feminist Methodology Sound Like?

Ann Fuata Aurelia Guo Bon Mott Caitlin Franzmann Caroline Anderson Celeste Liddle Clare Cooper Collingwood College Sound Collective Ellena Savage Evelyn Ida Morris Feminist Theory Group Frances Barrett Gabi Briggs Gail Priest Georgina Criddle Harriet Kate Morgan Jasmine Guffond Kate Geck Kym Maxwell Makiko Yamamoto Martina Copley Ruth O'Leary Simona Castricum Thanh Hằng Phạm

Fri, 28. Aug 2015

West Space
Level 1,
225 Bourke St
Melbourne
VIC

6PM -9PM
FREE

FM[X]?: What Would A Feminist Methodology Sound Like?

Liquid Architecture is proud to present four nights of performances, talks, interactions and more by women artists at West Space. All welcome to come, listen, dance, chill, and be a part of this evolving conversation. FMX is amplified by a sound system designed, built and generously loaned by Lucreccia Quintanilla.

There are many feminisms, and many speaking for feminism. Instead of looking for answers, or speaking for women, we have some questions for feminism coming from within systems of sonic affect, or using sound as an acoustic mirror for society. Questions like, how is music one of the desire industries? How do everyday practices and cultures of hearing work to police some utterances but not others? Baffling, muffling and amplifying: What is emitting the noise that is in itself a silence? Can lower frequency listening help us to hear how power works on and through us sonically? What tones, what attunement is required if we want to do this? And what volume?

Artists

Ann Fuata

!!CALL OUT!! Performers needed to participate in a live performance. It involves clicking, pausing and clapping. Please contact: a.a.fuata@gmail.com

Aurelia Guo

#GiveYourMoneyToWomen

Bon Mott

A transmutation into energy happens from an alchemical mixture of the corporeal, the spatial, the intangible and embodiment of the ghost of AC/DC’s singer/songwriter, Bon Scott.

Caitlin Franzmann

...the term vocal fry and its association with young women is another ‘excuse to dismiss, ignore and marginalise women’s voices, both literally and figuratively’.

Caroline Anderson

Screeds of crystallised information surprised me with its contents, issuing clues as to what was happening within.

Celeste Liddle

Melbourne-based Arrernte woman and self-described Black Feminist Ranter

Clare Cooper

Healing through improvised harp and open heart

Collingwood College Sound Collective

They were asked to consider the contradictions in sound, such as those found in film and Foley techniques and to consider that gender may be associated to particular qualities in sound, instruments and/or image.

Ellena Savage

Ellena Savage is an essayist, critic, and editor from Melbourne. She has been described as a “neurotic airhead”, and “better than Marx”.

Evelyn Ida Morris

musician, performer, LISTEN(ER) and advocate for women in Australian music

Feminist Theory Group

FTG: Eva Birch, Katherine Botten, Aurelia Guo

Frances Barrett

From here to hear. From here, as email. To hear, as script. From here, as silent artist**. To hear, performing Curator***.

Gabi Briggs

Shaving and shedding for cultural protection, intergenerational empowerment and black feminist truth

Gail Priest

Gail Priest is an artist, writer and curator, for whom sound is the key investigative material.

Georgina Criddle

a voice from behind the great walls of brian

Harriet Kate Morgan

Psychedelic death industrial act military position deals with modern and everlasting feelings of female and human subjugation.

Jasmine Guffond

"The relative invisibility of digital surveillance and the proliferation of consumer modes of online surveillance has both intensified and rendered ambivalent our relationships to being surveyed. Sound provides a means for listening back to some of the imperceivable surveillance infrastructures that monitor our habitual online browsing."

Kate Geck

animation, textiles, installation, interactive, melbourne, australia m8

Kym Maxwell

recite verses in rounds expressing the interconnectedness of student to teacher, student to student and class to the community.

Makiko Yamamoto

makik markie yammamoroto Mama Kik Makiki Yammer matah Ma Ki ko

Martina Copley

Sound, idea, object and modality are collated to set up a structural space for something to exist, a space in which the work moves towards an opening and at the same time asks questions about itself.

Ruth O'Leary

Melbourne based artist who works primarily with performance, video and painting.

Simona Castricum

"All that I am doesn't belong, all I will be doesn't belong, so whats the point of all of my songs if everything I know is now wrong?"

Thanh Hằng Phạm

Thanh Hằng is a queer, second-gen Vietnamese-Other descendant. She draws on the bodily to visualize and give breathe to her writing and zine-making. Thanh Hằng’s work is engrossed in mental health, bodies, boundaries, Vietnamese diaspora, queerness, and water. She is also a radio producer for 3CR’s Queering the Air.

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