Research: Voices in motion: vocal gestures in performance practices and spaces of resonance
curriculum PhD: Studies on Theatre, Performing Arts, Film and Digital Performance
Giulia Mastropietro (PhD candidate) is a scholar working across the fields of performance studies, vocal studies, affect theory and new-materialisms. Her research focuses on the role of the vocal gesture in the performing arts practices in which the voice becomes an instrument of critique of dominant cultural paradigm and a space for the emergence of silenced and marginalized subjectivity. She is interested in the performative power of vocality as a source of embodied knowledge and as a form of social and political agency. She holds a bachelor’s degree (with honors) and master's degree (with honors) in Art history from Sapienza University of Rome, awarded as outstanding student of the Excellence program of the department. She has also contributed as a researcher to curatorial projects and collaborated with several institutions and foundations, such as the MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts.