Laura Leuzzi is a physical presence. Laura Leuzzi is a vocal force. And both claim space, demanding the domain they are entitled to inhabit. Stemming from a middle-class Italian upbringing, Laura Leuzzi draws attention to her own privileges. She speaks on behalf of disenfranchised groups throughout ancient and modern history. She admits us into her personal world as a youth and later as a woman appraised in centimetres and flesh, the body weaponised, objectified and reduced to a standard by which the very validity of existence is judged.
Laura Leuzzi is a feminist curator, historian, and writer ho has spent years exploring the place of women and their expression in art and historical records. She scrutinises the actions of feminist activists, like Yoko Ono, who placed women’s bodies and voices directly at the core of the discussion. Reinterpreting a vocal exercise by Vaccai, in which women are depicted as frail and unfit to govern themselves, the physical self and the voice grant it renewed life. MyBodyisMyPiano is a captivating, visceral, and disconcerting performance, woven together with a deeply personal yet collective narrative that spans female history.
Credits
The piece in this form was for the first time exhibited in the Sound Studies Forum’s Listening Room (7 August – 7 September 2026).
- Recording: Marissa Keating
- Sound editing: Cinzia Cremona
- Photo courtesy of: Joseph DeLappe, Gair Dunlop and Antonio Aiello.
Presented for the first time at the Convergence festival (Live Art Ireland, North Tipperary, Ireland, 2025), the performance was held at the Unconformity conference—part of Stephen Skrynka’s contribution to the IN TIME Royal Scottish Academy 200th Annual, curated by Annie Cattrell—in the atmospheric spaces of the Wall of Death structure at The Revelator, Glasgow, on 30 May 2026. Special thanks also go to Maja Zećo, Sara d’Alessandro Manozzo, and the Voxfulness vocal coach and singing teacher Luciana Di Bella, for their invaluable exchanges and constant support.
Biography: Laura Leuzzi is a contemporary art historian and curator. She is currently a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Gray’s School of Art (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK). She is the author of articles and essays published in books and exhibition catalogues and has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances in Italy, Switzerland, and the UK; her research focuses on new media, performance, and feminisms. She is also the co-editor of several publications, including REWINDItalia: Early Video Art in Italy (2015), EWVA: European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s (2019), and Incite: Digital Art and Activism (2023).