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Let's amplify unspeakable things

this is how female/high-pitched voices have been described since acient times as Anne Carson observes

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  • This work has been produced in the context of the graduation research of Angeliki Diakrousi from the Experimental Publishing (
    XPUB
    XPUB is a two year Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design that focuses on the intents, means and consequences of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks
    ) Master course at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.
  • https://xpub.nl
  • Special thanks to Christina Karagianni for organising together these inspiring workshops, Angelique, Fatima, Lidia, Dionne and other women from
    Wereldvrouwen
    Wereldvrouwen Rotterdam Foundation does various social, educational and recreational activities for and by women from various cultures, many of them with a low income and low education level. One of their meeting points is at Leeszaal
    for participating in the workshops, and all the other participants who came in the beginning, but also the online participants who generously contributed with their voices to the website. More thanks to my tutors, XPUB comrades and all my friends with whom I had interesting discussions and tryouts that pushed my research further.
  • The last 6 workshops are part of
    Women@Art
    (free translation) Wereldvrouwen Rotterdam Foundation does various social, educational and recreational activities for and by women from various cultures, many of them with a low income and low education level. Most women hardly ever come into contact with the world of Art & Culture. Participants are encouraged to develop with inspiring examples from the art world by visiting exhibitions / studios in the city. A number of female (amateur) artists give workshops on their own work. The aim is to make the world of art more accessible, to help women to develop their own creativity and to transform it into strength
    and funded by the
    Municipality of Rotterdam
    The municipality granted to us a structural subsidy called Pitcher Perfect 010
  • The studies of Angeliki Diakrousi were funded through a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation
  • This work is licensed under the
    Free Art Licence
    [Angeliki Diakrousi, Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things, 2019. Rotterdam].
    Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
    .
  • Source code of the website
  • About

    'Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things' is an online platform of exploration and research, regarding
    female voices
    The term 'female voices' refers as well not only to the feminine, queer, non-binary voices but also to the primitive and non-rational ways of expression, that the contemporary democracy tends to exclude
    in public and their amplification, developed by Angeliki Diakrousi. It creates a space for excluded voices to be explored (online and physical spaces), that questions the establishment of authoritative voices — which construct exclusive speech platforms and binaries, along the assumption that voices have to be rational in public dialogues. It includes a set of
    podcasts
    Different frictions emerged, between the technical and non technical
    that revisit and overlay an archive of audio recordings, produced in situated
    workshops
    and soundwalks, and media sources from a body of research. 'Let's Amplify Unspeakable Things' is based on the concept that amplification can provide presence through repetition and multiplication, as the structure of the workshops and the website reveals. The project itself is a process of feedback and iteration of actions, throughout a period of four months, situated around the space of Leeszaal and hub.xpub.nl. It exists in between the friction of institutions (a public library and an academy) and different public spheres (wereldvrouwen, academic), and it aims to go beyond their binaries.