Contributor

Ella Finer’s work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating with a particular interest in how women’s voices take up space; how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change occupations of space. Her research continuously queries the ownership of cultural expression through sound; often through collaborative projects centring listening as a practice of deep attention, affiliation, and reciprocity. Recent work has been presented at Onassis Stegi (Athens), Gasworks (London), FUTURA (Prague) and Ocean Archive, which has hosted her long correspondence project with Vibeke Mascini, Silent Whale Letters. She is currently finishing her first book Acoustic Commons and the Wild Life of Sound, a work considering the inherent power in/of that which falls outside of administrative control—a way of thinking through the sonic as critical agitator.