FM[X]: Sydney
13-17 Riley St
Woolloomooloo
FREE
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?
NIGHT ONE
Blossom & Rust Lorna & Aunty Jenny Munro (NSW) radicalising Indigenous mother-daughter dynamics.
Maysa Abouzeid (VIC) busting narrow-minded ableism one gag at a time.
COCO SOLID (NZ) rapping, writing, cartooning = undoing colonial tokenism.
Cinnamon Templeton (NSW) destroying to create, burning to release.
Madboots (QLD) stomping the house down with internettish hip-hop and comedy.
Feminist Dance Party curated by Sezzo Snot (QLD) straight-talking, deck-spinning, hostess-provocateur.
NIGHT TWO
Critical Dance Evelyn Araluen Corr (NSW)
Leila El Rayes (NSW) severing the orientalist shackles of the exotic Other.
Saba Vasefi (NSW) voicing women’s experiences of detention, neo-imperialism, and transnational being.
Clare Cooper (NSW) healing through improvised harp and open heart.
Chloe Alison Escott (TAS) singing ficto-critically about an imminently world-famous trans pop sensation.
Roslyn Helper (NSW) hypersexting some new feminist scores for pop and rap.
Feminist Dance Party curated by Sezzo Snot (QLD)
INSTALLATIONS
Gabi Briggs shaving and shedding for cultural protection, intergenerational empowerment and black feminist truth.
Linda Dement re-tuning dogma-whistling with new feminist propagandisms.
WITH
Salote Tawale powering the fire and spice that is the FM[X] BBQ.
Beth Sometimes & Caroline Anderson swiping left on the unintentionally-hilarious world of Tinder.
Evelyn Araluen Corr constellating place, poesis and positionality.
Rebecca Ross mapping the concepts of geography, place, orientation and placement.