Liquid Architecture is an Australian organisation for artists working with sound. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.
Our program stages encounters and creates spaces for sonic experience, and critical reflection on sonority and systems of sonic affect. To do this, we host experiences at the intersection of contemporary art and experimental music, supporting artists to produce performances and concerts, exhibitions, talks, reading groups, workshops and recordings in art spaces, music venues and other sites.
Liquid Architecture is curatorially driven and our methodology embraces research, collaborations and imaginations. We want to echo beyond local conversations, problems, debates and questions, to reverberate across media and disciplines, and so to sound out new discourses about the audible world, and beyond.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first sovereign owners of this unceded country. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and becoming.
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Liquid Architecture (LA) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal information obtained and stored about its audience or clientele, including users of this website.
We understand and appreciate that our audience or clientele and users of this website are concerned about their privacy and the confidentiality and security of any information that may be provided to us.
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LA collects personal information in a variety of different ways depending on the type of contact that is made with the organisation. We collect personal information both from individuals directly and from third parties.
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OUR DATA SECURITY POLICY
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Caitlin Franzmann
Above images filmed by Marcus Salvagno
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This is an invitation to participate in a series of voice workshops that I will be facilitating for the Liquid Architecture program FM[X] at West Space. FM[X] is a program of artistic responses to the provocation ‘What would a Feminist Methodology sound like?’
My response to this provocation has been inspired from recent debates around vocal trends of young North American and British Women, in particular ‘vocal fry’ – a tendency to draw out the end of sentences with a low creaky voice. In a recent Guardian Article, Naomi Wolf appealed to young women to drop vocal fry and reclaim their strong female voice. She suggested women that adopted upspeak (raising ones voice at the end of a sentence), ‘like’ and vocal fry, risked not being listened to, or taken seriously. In response, sports historian, Erin Riley argues that the term vocal fry and its association with young women is another ‘excuse to dismiss, ignore and marginalise women’s voices, both literally and figuratively’. Many note that the speech patterns are not only adopted by young women and therefore the vilification of women that adopt these trends is a continuation of the problematic policing of women’s voices throughout history.
These discussions have raised several questions for me. What does it mean for a woman to own her power and claim her own voice? Is it possible to disassociate from what dominant society considers a pleasing and authoritative voice? Does the problem lie with the listeners?
I would like to physically and philosophically explore these questions in four x two hour workshops with a diverse group of 5-6 women. The structure of the workshops will involve a combination of group-centred and individual consciousness raising approaches:
WORKSHOP 1 – BODY CONSCIOUSNESS
Our minds and bodies work together. In this session I will take the group through body consciousness exercises to explore inner energies and what our bodies desire to communicate.
WORKSHOP 2 – VOICE
A voice coach will lead this session with vocal exercises to help us discover our vocal possibilities.
WORKSHOP 3 – LISTENING
Listening can sometimes be more difficult than talking. This workshop will introduce the concept of deep listening as hearing in a fully present way without judgment or trying to control the situation.
WORKSHOP 4 – REFLECTIONS
In the final workshop we will reflect as a group on the questions, experiences and feelings raised during the previous sessions. We will revisit some of the activities and collectively decide how to represent the journey to an outside audience.
The FM[X] program invites each artist to respond to the question within a 20 minute slot on Friday 18th September at West Space. This is a process-based project in which the outcome is currently unknown. I am inviting you on this journey because I believe you would be interested in these questions and have an openness to listening, feeling and understanding.
I am not a trained facilitator. I see myself as going on this journey alongside you in the hope that we will each discover new possibilities of our singular and collective voices and find a way to share this with others.
