New genders of listening #3 - Feminine sounds and what they do. In conversation with Erin Gee.
As part of her ongoing exploration of “gendered listening” as a feminist tool, Anna Raimondo interviews Canadian sound artist, performer and composer Erin Gee. By articulating materialist feminist strategies around digital tools through the use of her voice and body, Erin Gee re-apropriates and combines supposedly “masculine” tools with a hyper-feminine aesthetic. As part of an ongoing research into ASMR, Gee explores different languages for encouraging intimacy with the audience.

New genders of listening - Anna Raimondo in conversation with Erin Gee

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Anna Raimondo completed the MA Sound Arts at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London) and she is running a practice based PHD between Arba (Ecole des Beaux Arts) and ULB University in Brussels. She has participated in several international exhibitions and festivals including the solo show: “New bounderies of the Wellness of Vagynal Ecosystem” at Ex Elettrofonica Gallery  curated by Lucrezia Cippitelli (Rome IT); “New bounderies of the Wellness of Vagynal Ecosystem”  curated by Juan Matos Capote at TEA Museum  (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES); the 13th Dakar Biennial (SN) in the frame of the exhibition “Invisible” curated par Alya Sebti; “Pavillon de l’Exile” curated by mounir fatmi and  Marie Deparis-Yafil  at French Institute (St.Louis, SN); the collective show “Loading...Casa” curated by Salma Lahlou in the frame of the Dubai Design Week; “Mi porti al mare?” curated by Nancy Casielles and Nancy Suárez at the MAAC (Brussels, BE); “Nous serons sérieuses de la manière la plus joyeuse” au Cube-Independent Art Room (Rabat, MA); “Come un mare fuor d'acqua” curated by Marco Trulli at the BJCEM- Mediterranea 17 (Tirana, AL); “Verso Sud” curated by David Ruffel and Ismael at Thinkart (Casablanca, MA); the collective show “Africa is not an island” at MACAAL’s museum (Marrakech, MA)the festival Artefact “You must change your life” curated by Hicham Khalidi, at STUK (Leuven, BE); the group show “Everyone has a sense of rhythm” curated by Christine Eyene at DRAF (London, UK); the solo show “Beyond voice. Me , you and everyone who is listening” at Arte Contemporanea Bruxelles (BE); the 5th Marrakech Biennale (MA); “Espace (Im)Media” in Sporobole Art Center (Sherbrooke, CA); the collective sound exhibition “Dirty Ear” curated by Brandon LaBelle at Errant Bodies (Berlin, DE); etc. Her radiophonic works have been broadcast internationally (Kunst Radio, AT; Deutschlandradio Kultur, DE; Resonance fm, UK; Arte Radio, FR; Mobile Radio Bsp, BR; Rai, IT; RTBF, BE...). Her curatorial projects are mainly focused on sound and radio art and have been presented in different venues, including 14 documenta radio program at SAVVY Galery (Berlin, De); the “V&A Museum” (London, UK) and “Le Cube- Independent Art Room” (Rabat, MA). She is co- editor of the radio and sound art’s platform Saout Radio, based in Morocco. She writes for the French radio art magazine Syntone. She has won the Palma Ars Acustica 2016 with her radio work “Me, my English and all the languages of my life” and the price of best soundscape with “La vie en bleu” in the frame of the sound art competition PIARS and has won the prize of the city in the frame of the contemporary art prize Mediatine in 2018.