SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM Tokyo 2019

Conference Team: Cathy Lane, Tomoko Hojo & Yoshitaka Mori

Administration & Content Support: Claire M. Holdsworth

Performance Programming: Holly Ingleton & Syma Tariq

Assistance: Louise Gray (Louise Marshall), Tomotaro Kaneko, Ai Kano & Tomo Yamazaki

Poster Design: Rika Nakashima

Technical Assistance: Wataru Shoji & Chiho Oka

Funding from: Tokyo University of the Arts, CRiSAP, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, Nomura Foundation and Mai Muto Memorial MCS Research and Education Fund.

SGFA 2019 Tokyo was a research event investigating the context of sound in all its various creative and theoretical forms, gender and activism. For the fourth installment of this regular SGFA forum took place at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Our aim was to share research, establishing and extending our pre-existing network of researchers and practitioners working in these areas with those working in Japan and beyond.

SGFA aims to expand and to question the place and performance of activism within the discourses and practices of sound arts, sound-based arts and experimental musics that are engaged with gender, feminist and queer politics and to contribute to a growing network of researchers and practitioners working in these areas. Different incarnations of SGFA took place in London in 2012, 2014 and 2016 attracting a diverse range of international presenters and attendees.

With an extensive programme of international contributions taking place over the course of two days, the event features artworks, performances, talks, lectures, round-tables and academic papers.

The majority of the programme was presented in English, with papers in Japanese on the 5 October (with English language simultaneous translation).

Special thanks to all the amazing people who have contributed to Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism past and present.