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 about yourself and I’ll include you in the mailing list.

 

About the group

This group focuses on intersectional feminist thought and doing in its specific entanglements with sound and has been developed by me, Adriana Minu with help, support and essential kinship from Feronia Wennborg. The discussion (words optional) aims to combine scholarly perspectives with artistic experiences and thoughts on doing feminism through sound. Everybody is welcomed.

Rooted in experimentalism, I (sound practitioner but non-expert feminist) created this group with a desire to share knowledge and be challenged by fellow researchers, artists, practitioners in sound on what feminism is and how it is enacted in the multiple fields and environments connected to sound.

 

Approach 

To kickstart, you’ll find some texts in the Google drive (link here) that we can use as springboards for discussion. This is a living repository that you are encouraged to add your own texts to. The readings for each week are posted at the top of the email and linked to in the drive.

Stemming from a desire to be inclusive of restlessness, ambiguity, pre-verbal expression, impulsivity, felt excess, digressions and attentional fluctuations, this space is experimenting with format as much as it is with content. I often find myself in academic spaces that carry fragile content in patriarchal containers that contradict the material being worked with. That is not enough. I’m keen to facilitate emergent ways of togetherness with a focus on care and radical acceptance.

With this in mind, I would like to invite us to be generous and kind to each other and responsible for ourselves. Pleasure, relaxation and dropping the ball are encouraged while remaining fueled and driven by feminist ideas, their contradictions, complexities and power.

The format and content is continously in flux as is the frequency of the meetings. If you have strong or fragile feelings about any of it do drop me a line.

Much love, Adriana

  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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there is space to… flow

Date : 17th February 2023
there is space to… flow

// ‘there is space to…’ is a monthly relational sounding event I run at Concordia University while I’m a visiting doctoral researcher here. This month, there is space to flow – if you’re in Montreal join in: 23rd of February, 5pm. Read more…


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

This is me, in the photo above, bungee-jumping about 11 years ago at a festival in Romania. This is also me today, live streaming my vocal practice to an unsuspecting audience on Facebook. That terror on my face… same thing.


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.


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