Gendered Soundscapes, 2022-Ongoing
'A score for Potato Peeling' (Charcoal on Paper, 111cm x 76xm, Ed. 1, 2022)
'A Score for Meat Market and Bolt' (Charcoal on Paper, Paper Collage, 18cm x 12cm, 2022)
'A Score for Kitchen work' (Pen on Paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2022)
“Gendered Soundscapes”
is a practice-based art project, exploring how soundscapes might be gendered and gender sounded. The first inquiry focuses on the post-soviet context, specifically Lithuania. Using field recordings, note-taking and audiovisual archiving, the project listens to everyday lived public and private spaces and asks how different thresholds of sound, from silence, voice, music to technologically mediated background noise, contributes towards the production of soundscapes where prescribed gender roles, sexism, and misogyny continue to linger as ingrained sounding elements, and how these might be embodied by those who endure in it.
The project explores theses sonic uncomfortable extremes through an interrogation of contemporary post-Soviet socially, politically and technologically mediated soundscapes by tuning towards the sounds of gender and class.
A series of graphic sound scores have been developed, which were included in the ‘Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes’ publication (LCI, 2022). Currently in development is the next iteration of the project - a creation of large scale graphic sound scores on the sounds of reproductive labour, which will be turned into an installation and a performance in 2025.