Sonic Man(ifestations)

Sonic Man(ifestations) explores ways in which gender manifests itself as sonic phenomenon under pressure of the gender binary. Western theories and conversations on gender performa-tivity are overshadowed by an emphasis on the visual: what a human body looks like, accesso-ries, hair, makeup, physical movement etc. Sonic Man(ifestations) addresses the lack of attention given to the tight relationally of gender performa-tivity and sound. It interrogates how specifically femininity and masculinity as sonic phenomena unfold, are valued and policed in daily life situations. ​ As part of an ongoing research practice, this work touches upon 'sonic manspreading': an active and horizontal formation of masculinity as sound. Sonic manspreading is an ontological, epistemological, and/or ethical situatedness of spatial entitlement and domination that might mute and silence femme or gender non-conforming ways of resonating with the world.