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I propose a lecture performance presenting a reflection on my artistic practice relevant to the theme. It is a format involving performative use of voice, sound processing and video. A large part of my artistic practice is a cyberfeminist endeavor of re-embodying archives of women’s voices singing in local languages, opposing the normative frames of unified nation-state versions of languages such as Polish and Ukrainian. In these archives, sounds and signs of a language are suspended between rules and variations, optimisation and ornamentation. A singing voice, carried by open vowels, embodies a certain text in a kind of materiality that prioritises expression and improvisation over discipline. Endless variations typical of Polish and Ukrainian archaic singing show enormous elasticity and potential for resisting the narratives of uniformisation.