Majena Mafe
is a writer, sonic and performance artist engaged in embodied theorizing, new media art and feminist aesthetics. I work at the comically contested edge of represented meaning. Presently completing a PhD on Gertrude Stein’s theory of sounded-language and the cyber sound of sounded-language, my thesis is shaped by articulating syntactical sounded nonsense as meaning… I am also involved in constructing ‘noise’ and animated ventriloquist ‘dummies’ performing sounded-language operas.
furtherfield www.furtherfield.org
opsound sound www.opsound.org
Let her be … (extract)
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This work is based on an extract from Gertrude Stein’s Patriarchal Poetry. It forms part of a large digital opera on Stein.