The John Berger Annual Lecture with Tina Stefanou

The John Berger Annual Lecture returns with Ways of Singing by artist Tina Stefanou, a performative lecture reimagining John Berger’s Ways of Seeing through the embodied and insurgent capacities of voice.

From the planet’s inaudible hums to the cries of grief shared by humans and elephants, Ways of Singing listens to how sound shapes our social and cultural worlds. It asks what happens when the voice exceeds objecthood, and when sound itself becomes community.

Performed as séance and improvised ensemble, the lecture gathers the audience together through resonance, breath and shared presence.

Tina Stefanou is an artist with a background in music and voice, working across performance, film, and installation. Her recent solo exhibition at ACCA received critical acclaim. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts.