Sarah Hayden is professor of experimental writing and art at the University of Southampton and has written on voice in contemporary art for academic, exhibition, and artists' publications. She is author of Curious Disciplines: Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood, coauthor of Peter Roehr: Field Pulsations, and editor of slow emergency siren, ongoing: Accessing Handsworth Songs.

"Voiceworks is exemplary of what academic scholarship in the humanities can advance and achieve. Sarah Hayden addresses significant national, sexual, racial, and socially political issues that emerge from even the most abstracted acousmatic works with fresh and enlightening theoretical expertise, accomplished writing, and perceptive listening." —Craig Dworkin, University of Utah"A precise, absorbing, and overdue account of artists who place the human voice at the center of what they make. Sarah Hayden closely attends to what the human voice creates in gallery spaces: politically, formally, and in relation to the bodies that receive it." —Benjamin Cook, founder of LUX Moving Image"Attending fastidiously to artistic forms of voicing and listening and really to writing in an expansive sense, Sarah Hayden's Voiceworks puts us 'in receipt of voice,' skillfully mediated by her own characteristically sonorous writing, reminding us 'voicing vessel[s]' that reading and listening are whole-body affairs and happen in dialogue with others, polyphonically entwined. Between the crisp and the blurred, between the mucus-congested and the throat-clearingly authoritative or charmingly awkward, between the intimate and the shouty, between the nearly or repeatedly worded, these sounded and unsounded voices and Hayden's perspicacious study of them, open us up to the world, through their various materialities, manipulations, sensibilities, symbolic baggage, and their inevitable and powerful relationality." —Sophie Seita, author of Lessons of Decal

• ContentsIntroduction1. Dialogical Voice: John Akomfrah2. Docuvocality: Hito Steyerl3. Voicing Over Nature: Charlie Prodger and Rebecca Horn4. Testimony: Carla Adra, Alban Muja, and Harun Farocki5. Re-voicing Speech: Irena Haiduk and Jesse Jones6. Voicing Text: Ed Atkins and Julian Rosefeldt7. The Body in the Voice: Cally Spooner, Vito Acconci, and Yoko Ono8. Unvoiceover: Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Tony Cokes, Sharon Hayes, and Liza SylvestreAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex