Sound as Resistance: resonances of the Polish Women’s Strike

Sound as Resistance: resonances of the Polish Women’s Strike

by Hanna Grześkiewicz

How do social movements sound? (How) can you use sound to affect change? What is the relationship between the artist and the activist when bodies meet in the streets? This lecture performance explores sound as a form of resistance through the lens of the 2020/21 Polish Women’s Strike by delving into the limits and potentialities of sonic agency, the fluid line between artists and activists, and what the resonances of social movements can tell us about the effects (and affects) of taking up public space.