10.26180/5b3d5f5fd71c0 HAYLEY JAY BRANDON HAYLEY JAY BRANDON Shrill, Needy, Incomplete: Listening to melancholic feminist voices in contemporary sound practices Monash University 2019 voice feminism art pop culture gender language art practice sound art Philosophy Gender studies Art 2019-02-19 02:32:32 Thesis https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Shrill_Needy_Incomplete_Listening_to_melancholic_feminist_voices_in_contemporary_sound_practices/6741854 This thesis examines the use of voice in contemporary visual art practice through first-person writing and spoken word sound recordings. I consider the gendering implicit in recorded voice and some of the implications this has in my art practice. Specifically, I explore how my work engages with ideas of first-person narrative feminism and the problems associated with this form of feminist voice. I discuss how the purposefully obscure mode of voice I develop through my art practice may amplify my complicity in post-feminist patriarchy and the significance of such an approach.