RESOUNDING GENDER: THINKING
THROUGH A FEEDBACKING SCOLD'S BRIDLE
Resounding Gender: Thinking Through a Feedbacking Scold's Bridle (2023) is a lecture performance that reflects on the developments within Luca's artistic PhD research, which inquires relationships between sound, gender, power, and social structures in human-object encounters. How is gender (per)fomed through sound in human-nonhuman entanglements? – is the main research question of the project. Across (auto)ethnographic, semiotic, and artistic methodological approaches, they study a diversity of objects that, in contact with the human body, have a significant presence of gendered sound. In this lecture performance, the focus lies on insights gained from experimenting with a scold’s bridle (a Medieval torture instrument) replica. A version of this lecture performance is reworked into a audio paper publication for Seismograf. To access the audio paper, click on this link or scroll down on this page. The audio paper has been dragged into the museum space and exhibited in an audiovisual installation at the Mala Stanica Multimedia center, part of the North Macedonian National Gallery.
[Video will be uploaded soon]
Lecuture Performance at isaScience (international conference), 'Sonic Ties: Rethinking Communities and Collectives, organised by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) [A]. Recording made by mdw.
Resounding Gender, Mala Stanica Multimedia center, North Macedonian National Gallery [MKD], 2025.
Photo by Denis Jagdzi.
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