Tina Stefanou

As a means to seek more inclusive ways of making and to frame tangled relationships, Stefanou engages in multispecies performance with a family of local others, friends not-yet-made, and poetic meetings of matter. With a background as a vocalist, she works undisciplined, across a diverse range of mediums, practices, approaches and labours: an embodied practice that she calls voice in the expanded field. Informed by Greek diasporic experiences, Stefanou engages in sound as social practice and explores with and beyond the human and more-than-human voice. This manifests through moving images, performances, installations, improvisations, live actions, conversations, vocal encounters, workshops, music, songs, writings and sculptural invitations. Her collaborators include places, communities, her grandmother, children, musicians, and animals, all involved to playfully disrupt and transform hierarchies of language, elitism and human exceptionalism.

For Cementa22 an aggregation of live voices line up in the streets. They fill the air with a hum. This hum unravels through multiple bodies creating signals within and beyond the geography of the place. This moment is broadcasted into air waves, to out-of-bound places where bodies cannot cross. Disrupting the borders between public and private, audience and performer, the commons and the undercommons, before and after. This is a material-immaterial collective action of mark-making through voice that remains stored in the material bodies of the mammalian, the geologic, and abiotic for as long these bodies exist, for as long as they hum. Supported by the Marten Bequest Scholarship.