unVOICING Migraine - A Study of the Failing Voice

What can the voice reveal about the migraine experience and what can migraine teach us about what it means to be voiced? Shuttling between theoretical findings and artistic practice, Mariske Broeckmeyer turns to concepts provided by voice theory, disability studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory and philosophy to create a framework that studies the relation between migraine and voice. By introducing artistic research in the spheres of voice theory, the voice is not merely tied to the paper but remains free to resonate. This way, Broeckmeyer aims to provide a different and supplementary form of knowledge that reaches beyond traditional academic research methods. By focusing on the failing of the voice, Broeckmeyer redefines the singer and her relation to the stage, while searching for an aesthetics of failure.