The Excess of Voice: Feminist Artistic Research
The presentation “The Excess of Voice: Feminist Artistic Research” proposes a feminist artistic research framework that understands voice, noise and form through the notion of excess. Rather than treating excess as disturbance, lack or failure, it is approached here as a productive and political condition — a site where language overflows itself and where meaning is inseparable from rhythm, timbre, affect and material presence. The presentation takes the form of a discursive constellation, bringing together aesthetic and political stakes emerging from my practice across sound, language and graphic form. Drawing on feminist philosophy of voice (Adriana Cavarero) and feminist psychoanalysis, I reflect on excess as a space that resists reduction to semantic clarity, returning the background — timbre, breath, and noise — to the foreground of articulation. This discursive constellation is conceived in close relation to the artistic works presented alongside it. Rather than complementing one another directly or illustratively, the presentation and the artworks operate as allied but asymmetrical contributions, each developing the shared aesthetic and political stakes through the specific logic of its own medium. Within this framework, noise is understood not as the negation of voice, but as its extension: an excess of articulation rather than its collapse. Typography and graphic design enter the presentation as applied yet subversive tools, operating through typographic excess, transformation of data and affective organisation of form. These practices challenge the assumed neutrality of design and composition, foregrounding their political and perceptual agency. Artworks related to the presentation: 1/ The zine-manifesto “Notes (on Nuissance) from the Dark Continent of Form” is a small publication conceived as a manifesto and a feminist textual gesture. Through poetic and theoretical fragments, it reflects on excess, noise and form, while typography functions as an active agent, working with density, rupture and resistance to clarity. 2/ Noise Essay (fixed media) translates discursive material into a halophonic sonic structure, treating discourse as texture rather than narration. Through density, layering and spatialisation, the work develops its own agency, approaching noise as a medium for non-linear thinking and a polyphonic flow of consciousness.