I’ve been running for the past six months or so a feminism through sound discussion group that is by design inclusive of restlessness, ambiguity, pre-verbal expression, impulsivity, felt excess, digressions and attentional fluctuations. It’s been my desire to not just talk about feminism but to facilitate spaces that embody its values on a deeper level. In it we draw, we’re silent, we speak, we read and connect ideas about how feminism is enacted through the medium of sound. The group is open to everyone to join, if you come accross this, drop me a line with a few words…
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Feminininism through sound discussion group
Date : 25th January 2024
In 2014 I was ‘not a feminist, but…’
Date : 22nd March 2023
In the summer of 2014, after three years in the UK, I proclaimed myself ‘not a feminist but…’ on Facebook. I shared a Huffington post article on gender differences in social interactions with which I claimed to resonate a little. A friend commented and asked why I considered myself not a feminist and I remember not being able to articulate why but feeling flooded by images of women that hate men, women that are using their gender as a form of privilege while being too whiney to just deal with shit, women that don’t have the sex appeal or power…
there is space to… flow
Date : 17th February 2023
DRIFT residency 2022
Date : 9th May 2022
In March this year, just I was emerging from my medical leave after long Covid, I went on the DRIFT, a weeklong artist residency in London ran by ZU-UK’s Artistic Director Persis Jadé Maravala and her team. The day after the DRIFT, at about 8am in the morning I wrote my thoughts on the experience. I remember the time because it’s unusual for me to write that early. I wrote from the body somehow, vibrating with the effects of the week onto the page. I wrote about the DRIFT and about the piece that I developed while there, which I…
Reflections on vocal practice live stream
Date : 24th August 2020
Hippidy-hop, dippidy-dop, the PhD has moved along a year
Date : 24th August 2020
Gosh, where did the time go? Covid seems to have deleted months off the calendar and for a while we went into a time warp. Things are speeding up slowly but I’m pretty much holding my breath for round two/three/four/twenty.
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WTF is Practice Based Research
Date : 2nd October 2019
It seemed apropriate, as I embark on this practice-based PhD, to pause and question in more detail what practice based means. I know what a big deal it was for me, while I was writing the research proposal, to realise that this is possible – academia is not just books, literature reviews and theories that function as pillars (but are really the meat and bones of all work), academia is also practice – doing things and figuring out new trajectories while doing them. In all honesty, I think the realisation was something more like: life is not just books and…
Glasgow, we meet again
Date : 26th September 2019
I was saying to my friend Ragnar that I feel like I’m on the dance floor on a night out but it’s too early and the music is not quite there yet and I wanna dance but my whole body is tense and weird and I am being unnecessarily aware of all of its micro robotic movements. That’s how the beginning of a PhD feels like. There’s (already) a big list of things to do, places to go, people to meet, things to read and write but something is slightly awkward. But it’s kinda ok because I know that on a night out, I eventually reach a point where everything in my body feels fluid AF and I’m moving to the rhythm like there’s no tomorrow and everything makes sense and it’s really intense and awesome.