Study Day on The Voice at Hospitalfield

How can the voice be worked with meaningfully? The voice can operate as the primary mode of complaint, making demands, speaking truth to power. There is a kind of voice that is considered powerful, that is considered worthy, to which value attaches.

A day of workshopping, performance and conversation will centre the voice as a malleable and powerful material that can be worked and shaped by the speaker.

This study day seeks to activate audiences through experimental and embodied workshops conceived and facilitated by artists and practitioners who are developing distinctive means of training the voice within a framework of social justice. It will explore how are voices coded, what hierarchies are activated when speaking, and what possibilities are released when vocal training is approached artistically as a site of agency and invention.

Featuring contributions from artists, performers, voice coaches and organisers including writer Jemma Desai.

Organised with artist and writer Adam Benmaklouf.