What is this project?

Speaking Towards One Another is a series of interdisciplinary staged performances for voice, live electronics, video, wearable performance technology, and British Sign Language. The project is created by Stephanie Lamprea (performer), Yuki Neoh (performer), Megan McArthur (performance interpreter - integrated),  Oana Stanciu (video art), Jen McGregor (stage dramaturg), Anne Kjær (video dramaturg and performer), and Tim Cooper & Alistair MacDonald (live electronics).

There will be two newly commissioned musical works by composers Laura Bowler and Amble Skuse, and recent works by composers Lisa Robertson, Stuart Macrae, and Tom W. Green, setting texts by writers and artists Alwynne Pritchard, Carol Ann Duffy, Gertrude Stein, Adah Isaacs Menken, and Hannah Siddiqui. These works create a theatrical narrative addressing topics of women’s testimony, language and the body, gender representation, and resilience within disability.

We will use live electronics to transform and digitise the singing and speaking voice, and wearable digital technologies to transform British Sign Language into live sounds and visuals. The concert will be accessible to hearing and D/deaf audience members via visual interpretations of the music, a live BSL translator, and printed programmes with all texts spoken, sung, and signed in the performance.
Activities

28 March 2025: Partial performance at CAFE OTO for eavesdropping london

22 May 2025: Full performance at Inspace Edinburgh​

23-28 May 2025: Video and sound installation at Inspace Edinburgh
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19 June 2025: Full performance at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Why are we doing this?

This project is a response to the development of audio technologies and the increasingly blurred boundaries of woman and machine. It seeks to safeguard the female voice (spoken and signed) in an increasingly digital world through feminist interdisciplinary performance. While modern audio technologies reveal a materiality of voice and body through the machine and expands how we can share and transform those things in the arts, they do not address the pre-existing patriarchal associations of voice and body with gender. When not addressed, these associations become amplified in performance art with the addition of technology and sound design. This project will take feminist approach to the digital voice in performance art by integrating digital technologies and art forms to disentangle gender biases within audio production and representation of the digital female voice, and collaging art disciplines to express female stories histories through female writers and their text. We hope to showcase innovative ways to collaborate in sound and theatre making with hearing and D/deaf artists, and I hope to demonstrate feminist approaches to creating and transforming the female digital voice with various technologies and creative expression.
Partners and Supporters

Booking inquiries for performance or installation:

​Contact Stephanie via her contact page: http://www.stephanielamprea.com/contact.html
​Technical requirements available upon request.