Voicing Matter / Mattering Voice: A/r/tographic Activisms for Becoming Seen and Heard

Abstract

This workshop, developed for the Seen and Heard 2026 Malta Conference, invites participants into an a/r/tographic studio encounter where voice is understood as more-than-human and matter is never mute. Working within the entangled practices of art, research, and teaching, participants engage in speculative, embodied, and fragmentary methods that resist extraction, resolution, and standardised forms of expression. The workshop positions a/r/tography as activism; an ethical and methodological commitment to attending to what is often silenced, overlooked, or unspoken in educational and research contexts.Through a series of metho-pedagogical activisms (including The Whisper Protocol, The Interru..