How to Perform a Scream? Autotheoretical Mouth Practice
Use your voice to disrupt, resist, and transform.
With Nadja Kracunovic
How to Perform a Scream? is a workshop series exploring the voice as a tool for fracturing, reconstructing, and interrupting spaces, while confronting oppressive systems and the “apocalyptic lovers” that seduce, control, and harm. This edition focuses on the mouth as a performative and autobiographical site: where personal histories are stored, where language is formed, and where expression can begin before it is corrected, translated, or silenced. Through guided vocal exercises, performance scores, short writing prompts, spoken word, whispering, trembling, naming and misnaming, participants will experiment with different ways of producing and withholding sound. Individual exercises will gradually develop into duets and collective choir situations. We will work with repetition, polyphony, cacophony, rhythm, interruption, non-verbal expression, and noises that resist becoming words. Participants will transform written material and bodily memories into vocal compositions, exploring how a voice can move between speech, song, breath, noise, silence, and scream. Drawing from vocal training, performance art, autotheory, crip theory, and critical pedagogy, the workshop approaches the scream not only as a loud sound, but as a counterstructure to dominant narratives and cultures of ignorance: something stored in the tongue, held in the throat, and disciplined by the body.
- Dates
- Fri 18 Sep, Fri 16 Oct
- Time
- 17:30–20:30
- Cost
- €25-50 (+ €5 membership fee for new members)
- Attendance type
- Each workshop is a one-off
- Desired audience
- All those interested in voice as a medium, regardless of age, gender, or (dis)ability.
- What should I bring?
- - No prior knowledge is needed. - The workshop is made for differently abled bodies. Different accessibility needs can be communicated with the moderator beforehand. - Bring desired writing materials (notepads, papers, pens, phones, etc)
- Class type
- Music, Activism, Theatre, Vocal, Performance
- Space
- Movement Space
About the artist
Nadja Kracunovic (Nađa Kračunović) is a Serbian-born interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Nadja works with performance, text, and object to address dangerous lovers across medical, social, and political contexts. Reviving public spaces, she brings fictional female* characters to life or invites real protagonists into her narratives. Her practice employs voice, applied text, documentation, humor, and poetry, drawing from diaries, folk tales, family histories, and intimate encounters. Kracunovic founded Sick Girl Strategies*, a publishing platform and lexicon of sick terms, co-founded Crying Classroom, a multimedia institution exploring crying as an artistic discipline, and is part of the interdisciplinary ensemble Don’t Worry, It’s Out of Control. Since 2023, she has been leading the voice and performance workshop series How to Perform a Scream?.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spejsdjana/https://nadjakracunovic.com/
Accessibility
One solidarity spot is available for this course at no cost. Please write to 90milartschool@gmail.com to book. 90mil is wheelchair accessible. Please see the yellow section below for more on accessibility.
Sliding scale
We use a sliding scale to make courses as affordable as possible. Here’s how to use it: Lower end: You don’t have a stable income. Mid range: You have a less stable financial situation and are more selective about where you spend your money. Higher end: You experience relative financial stability. Solidarity spot: You’re experiencing financial precarity and wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to come to a workshop.