Luca Soudant (b. Maastricht, 1993) is a PhD researcher funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They are a cultural studies scholar, artist, DJ (ADIË) and critical practice educator at Maastricht Institute of Arts. Luca holds a research master's degree in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam and a master's degree in Critical Studies from the Sandberg Institute. They were a resident at the post-academic Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2023-2024), and in 2025 created a soundscape for the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. 

Luca's research merges academic scholarship with artistic practice and is situated at the intersection of gender studies and sound studies. From queer and posthuman theoretical perspectives, they explore how gender is culturally (per)formed through sound in the entanglements of humans and objects. Moving beyond binary gender dynamics, Luca investigates how non-musical sound can set matter in motion as a way of queering dominant understandings of matter, meaning and, most importantly, their intertwinings. Engaging the tangibility of sound, they propose sonic thinking (i.e., making and thinking with/through sound) as a trans*formative politics that opens toward non-binary, anti-essentialist conceptions of the worlds we inhabit.