Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes, 2022





“Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes: Lithuania” questions how soundscapes might be gendered and gender sounded within the post-soviet context, specifically Lithuania. Using field recordings, note-taking and audiovisual archiving, the article 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 article was published in ‘Soundscape as a Journal’ edition in 2022. Guest Editor: Damian Lentini. 

The article was nominated for Art Criticism Awards, ‘Text by Artists and Curators’ category in 2023, organised by the Contemporary Art Centre, the National Gallery of Art of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, and the digital contemporary art magazine Artnews.lt. More information can be found here.