Posthuman Voices
Posthuman Voices is a hybrid academic-artistic research project engaging the voice and sonorosity as a method for exploring body-environment relationships. The project specifically builds on feminist posthumanist approaches to the body as being inextricably entangled with environments and with non-human others. With this in mind, how do different vocal, sonorous performance and breathing techniques help us to explore such entanglements, in ways that decentre the human larynx, body and breath in favour of multi-species or co-constitutive phenomena?
The voice, here, is not approached in terms of its virtuosity or as a locus of discipline, but as a vibratory tool for learning about the relationships between things. These might include the relationship between oneself and one’s environment, other bodies, technologies, or other species. The voice is a material relationality, whereby any sound is the sum of all vibrating matter in a room or environment, which not only includes air, but also ground, flesh and other matter. As such, Posthuman Voices exceeds normative ideas of the voice as an expression of an individual (human) subject, or even a group of subjects (as in a choir). Instead, a voice can be understood as an intensification of certain relational, material and sensational flows within a broader phenomenal field.