Figuring and re-figuring echo: sonic knowledge production, decoloniality and practice

In this keynote lecture, I draw on my research into archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production as well as my own artistic practice. Drawing from fieldwork and presenting audio recordings, I explicate the figure of echo as a material-semiotic figuration of sonic knowledge production. I will outline how echo has been shaped by coloniality, whiteness and cisheteropatriarchy and on the basis of its limitations, I propose to explore echo as a feminist and decolonial sonic figuration. In closing, I turn to my sound installation ‘Myths of Echo’ as an example of how creative practice might open up space for alternative ways of knowing and doing.

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