Abstract:
Monster in Greek is associated at once with monstrous and miraculous qualities. Deriving from my research on mythological voices, matriarchal “differentiated concepts of self” (Carson) and posthumanism, monster mirrors a residual matrix of unwitnessed and extrapolated vocalities, linked with nature, animality, femininity and myth.
Textual-as-topological treatment Level, aiming to:
1. Provoke inner-outer-third spaces’ boundaries to excavate residual geographies of trauma. Using the analytic psychology’s concept of archetypes as transcultural well of memories with symbolic appearances, we awaken “mythic time” as universal temporality of human/more than human encounters; Silence, listening activation through sound studies’ concepts along with nature’s sounds’ imitation and corporeal imagination are valorised towards immaterial archaeologies’ awareness.
2. Intrigue disruptive vocalities between sound and logos associated with lament, tragedian femininities and revolution. Using lament techniques (Mirka Gementzaki’s training, based on Mani dirge/Greece) and lament-roles as taxonomy of witnessing and emanating the words of the missing ones (Seremetakis) we organize an architecture of liminal testimonies.
3. Textual exploration as sonic specific topology towards logos’s re-vocalization (Thomaidis) by valorising monstrousness as prosodic residuality: Collective utterance of textual Abstract:s, by real-time linguistic manipulation as a sound-scape of buried phonologies, we form paradigms of sonic/specific-textual liminal approach. Mentally and experientially intrigued, this path to embodied vocality aspires to inform with specific theoretical notions towards alternative all- inclusive embodied politics, reenforcing and expanding non-mediated phonetic ecologies.
BIO:
Vocal performer, postdoctoral researcher, teaching fellow (University of Thessaly), musicologist (Ph. D/State Scholarships Foundation). As a practitioner, she has collaborated with Greek National Opera, Onassis Foundation, MedeaElectronique, Paris MSH, Alea III, dance/performing/conceptual art groups, etc. She has published articles and participated in conferences, lectures, sound installations, experimental movies, and broadcasts in Greece and abroad. She conducts postdoctoral research, theorizing and artistically investigating vocal mythology and bioethics within the posthuman turn.