[Launch] Bodies of Sound

Join us for the launch of Bodies of Sound, a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening. We will be joined by editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin, and contributors Stoffel Debuysere, Xenia Benivolski, Anna Raimondo and Julia Eckhardt. Welcome!

Schedule

18h30-20h00 readings and presentations

Irene Revell & Sarah Shin will also be doing a listening session at KASK School of Arts, Ghent on Thu 27 November 2025 (Herculeslab, 16h), open for all.

About the publication

Bodies of Sound (Silver Press, 2024) offers a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening in over fifty contributions. In this book of echoes, a variety of forms – from essays to text scores to art, fiction and memoir – speak across gender, ways of knowing, witnessing, sounding and voicing, translation, displacement, violence and peace.

Find the book here: https://rile.space/books/bodies-of-sound-becoming-a-feminist-ear

About the guests

Irene Revell and Sarah Shin are both curators, writers, editors and researchers who work with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image. In 2022 Irene Revell completed her practice-based doctoral thesis, Live Materials: 'Womens Work', Pauline Oliveros and the Feminist Performance Score, with a focus on the curatorial challenges posed by text instruction scores and related live ephemera. She is currently developing a long-term project that attends to artists working with text/instruction/scores in areas that span queer-feminist and decolonial listening, disability justice and expanded forms of practice that might be termed "score-thinking".

Sarah Shin explores dreams, myth, cosmic speculation and transformation through writing, research, publishing and curation. She is among the founders of Silver Press, the feminist publisher and Spiral House, its new imprint for art, poetry and ways of knowing, and Standard Deviation, a multidisciplinary collective exploring the coincidence of psychic, geometric and inhabited spaces. In 2024 they launched Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear, offering a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening.

Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator and educator working with sound, visual art, and material culture, with a focus on musical instruments as political and historical agents. She is currently a PhD researcher and FWO fellow at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, where she studies the ideological and material histories of musical instruments, particularly bells, across shifting colonial and post-Soviet geographies.

Anna Raimondo is a sound artist and performer based in Brussels, pursuing a practice-based PhD titled Toward Gendered Listening. Her work and research explore the relationship between listening and intersectional feminist strategies. Her public space project Q(ee)r Codes is part of Brussels city center’s collection. She has exhibited internationally and won awards such as the Palma Acustica Award.

Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organiser in the field of the sonic arts. She is artistic co-director of Q-O2 workspace for experimental music and sound art, and of Oscillation festival in Brussels. She has performed and released internationally, and has been engaged in a number of artistic collaborations, among which extensively with composer Éliane Radigue.

Stoffel Debuysere is a Brussels-based researcher and curator active in the fields of cinema and audio/visual arts. he is currently working on a research project at KASK School of Arts, entitled Echoes of Dissent, which aims to examine the relationship between cinema and politics from a sonic perspective.

This event is supported by the Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences, KU Leuven, and LUCA School of Arts, in collaboration with VUB and the research cluster The Art of Resonance (KASK School of Arts, Ghent University). It is made possible through OJO funding, with the support of the Flemish Government.