Bodies of Sound: Expert Visit and Book Launch

27–28 November 2025, Ghent and Brussels

We are delighted to host Irene Revell and Sarah Shin for a two-part program in Ghent and Brussels as part of an OJO-funded collaboration between researchers at LUCA School of Arts (KU Leuven), Ghent University, and VUB.

Workshop: Publishing as Feminist Practice with Irene Revell and Sarah Shin (Silver Press)

Thursday 27 November from 11:15 to 13:45
The old library – Room C15.
LUCA School of Arts (KU Leuven), Ghent

Space is limited to 15 participants. Please sign up by emailing xenia.benivolski@luca-arts.be

How can publishing function as a collective, artistic, and feminist act? How might editorial work itself become a space of experimentation and care? In this workshop, editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin from Silver Press invite students to think through publication as a creative process and a political gesture. Together, they will discuss how to begin and sustain an editorial project or small press, how to translate artistic research into printed and digital forms, and how to build networks of collaboration that support independent publishing.

Participants are encouraged to come prepared with questions, ideas, or short proposals for editorial, curatorial, or publication projects they wish to develop. Through conversation and practical examples, the group will collectively explore how to shape ideas into publishing formats, how to find the right rhythm and readership for a project, and how to imagine editorial work as an extension of artistic practice.

The workshop will also consider the role of feminist publishing as a form of radical listening, translation, and world-making. Drawing from their recent book, Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024), Revell and Shin will discuss how publishing can hold and transmit voices, how texts and sounds move across media and generations, and how editing can be both a curatorial and political act.

Listening Session: Irene Revell & Sarah Shin

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:00
Herculeslab, KASK School of Arts, Ghent

Organized by The Art of Resonance – The Resonance of Art research cluster (KASK & Conservatorium), this informal listening session brings together international artists and researchers to cultivate a sonic sensibility and relational practice.

Book Launch: Bodies of Sound – Becoming a Feminist Ear

Friday 28 November 2025, 18:30–20:00
Rile Books, Brussels

Join us for the launch of Bodies of Sound (Silver Press, 2024), a resonant exploration of feminist sonic cultures and radical listening. Editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin will be joined by contributors Stoffel Debuysere, Xenia Benivolski, Anna Raimondo, and Julia Eckhardt for readings and presentations.

Bodies of Sound gathers over fifty contributions across essays, text scores, fiction, memoir, and art, exploring gender, listening, witnessing, displacement, violence, and peace.
Find the book here: rile.space/books/bodies-of-sound-becoming-a-feminist-ear

About the Guests

Irene Revell is a researcher, curator, and serial collaborator. She teaches on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths and is Senior Lecturer in Sound Research at London College of Communication, where she co-leads the Scoring Warnings AHRC project. Her work often engages with archives and feminist histories of sound and performance.

Sarah Shin is a writer, curator, and publisher exploring myth, dreams, and transformation. She is a founder of Silver Press and Spiral House, and co-founder of Standard Deviation and New Suns, all dedicated to feminist and experimental publishing and curation.

Xenia Benivolski is a writer, curator, and educator focusing on musical instruments as political and historical agents. She is a PhD researcher and FWO fellow at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, studying the ideological and material histories of instruments, particularly bells, across colonial and post-Soviet contexts.

Anna Raimondo is a Brussels-based sound artist and performer whose PhD, Toward Gendered Listening, explores listening as an intersectional feminist strategy.

Julia Eckhardt is a musician and organiser, co-director of Q-O2 workspace and the Oscillation Festival in Brussels.

Stoffel Debuysere is a researcher and curator at KASK School of Arts, where his project Echoes of Dissent examines the relationship between cinema and politics through sound.

This program is supported by the Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences (KU Leuven) and LUCA School of Arts, in collaboration with VUB and Ghent University, and made possible through OJO funding with the support of the Flemish Government.

Further information:

• Rile Books event
• KASK event