Voiceworks

"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