Noise, Nuisance, Jouissance & the Feminist Politics of Excess

Noise, Nuisance, Jouissance & the Feminist Politics of Excess

Uliana Bychenkova, KIM, GMPU

This presentation unfolds from my position as a feminist artistic researcher and noise practitioner, proposing noise as a dramaturgy of excess. Extending feminist musicological reflections on form

toward feminist psychoanalysis, I trace noise as a movement from nuisance to jouissance — exploring disturbance in its incompressible intensity. The classical figure of the “dark continent” of feminine desire is revisited not as lack, but as a continent of excess: a territory rendered obscure precisely because it exceeds containment and measure.

Jouissance names this surplus — not a deficit within order, but a pleasure that surpasses its scale.

In my practice, noise becomes a kairotic continent: a dense spacetime in which linear anticipation loosens, hierarchies of foreground and background dissolve, and micro-intensities unfold as nuance, each presence carrying equal force. Excess here does not abolish form; it thickens it, saturates it, holds it open. To work with noise is to remain with this irreducible intensity — where form does not close, but deepens.

28.4.2026, quARtier, 8.-Mai-Straße 47, 1. Stock

16.30  Uhr – Empfang mit Tee

17.00 Uhr – Vorträge

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