Sounds Like Her - Gender, Sound Art and Sonic Cultures

Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and continue to define current practice. Sounds Like Her is a challenge to the restrictive social construct of "female voices". The book re-frames how we experience the dynamic of sound as practiced by women from diverse cultures and gender identities. The book highlights the work of seven artists working across diverse cultures including: Ain Bailey (UK), Sonia Boyce OBE RA (UK), Linda O’Keeffe (IE/UK), Christine Sun Kim (US), Elsa M’bala (CM/DE), Madeleine Mbida (CM), Magda Stawarska-Beavan (PL/UK). Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and, to some extent, continue to define current practice.0Sounds Like Her is a challenge to the restrictive social construct of female voices. The book re-frames how we experience the dynamic of sound as practiced by women from diverse cultures and gender identities.0The themes, debate, and curatorial perspective are explored through three new essays by Christine Eyene (curator and author), Cathy Lane (sound artist, composer and professor of Sound Art at the University of the Arts London) and artist and author Salomé Voegelin (author of The Political Possibility of Sound, Bloomsbury).0The definition of Sound Art has always been narrow, from the perspective of gender, and international cultures. The book widens and rebalances the understanding of the art form and embraces the rich vein of work that needs to be a part of a new history of this creative practice Die Kuratorin Christine Eyene hinterfragt die eurozentrischen und patriarchalen Rahmenbedingungen, die die Geschichte der Klangkunst geprägt haben und bis zu einem gewissen Grad auch weiterhin die aktuelle Praxis bestimmen