VOZ Mal | Activity | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

AS PART OF THE NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS, MACBA PURSUES ITS ATTEMPT TO SUBVERT THE DRAMA OF ITS ROOMS, BEGUN WITH Prelude: Poetic Attemptwith the staging of Voz Bad (2012–2017)by the artist Jaume Ferrete. This is a performance added to the collection in 2024 and reoriented in this staging under the Direction of Ferrete Himself. For the first time, the performing role is given to Frances Ribes RenshawWho Takes on the Challenge of Paying Voz Bad In 2025.

Voz Bad Activates the Imagination and Devices of Truth Associated with the Voice. What Positions of Encourestation and Other Ideological Mechanisms of the Voice Run Through US? Approachad like the different pieces of music in a concert, it plays with the masculinization of the voice affected by Margaret Thatcher to Make Herself More respected in a markedly male Public context. It also play with the so-called “Human Microphone”, in Collectivising vocal technique used in the Occupy Wall Street Movement; and with the oral history of synthetic voices, among oter linguistic and vocal situations.

As Ferrete Himself Explains, “Voz Bad WAS CREATED THINKING OF THE NOTION OF ‘IDEOLOGIES OF THE VOICE’ Which Amanda Weidman Defined Like This: ‘Ideologies of the Voice Are Culturaly-Constructed Ideas About Voice, Including Theories About The Relationship Between Vocal Qualities and Character, Gender or Other Social Categories; Where voice comes from; Itts Status in Relation to Writing or Recorded Sound; The Relationship Between Voice and the Body; What constituts in ‘Natural’ voice; and who we should allow to speak and how. ‘”