Luca Soudant (Maastricht, 1993) is a PhD researcher at the Open University, artist, DJ (ADIË) and theory teacher at the Maastricht Institute of Arts. They graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a research master’s degree in Cultural Analysis and from the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam with an artistic master’s degree in Critical Studies. Luca’s research combines academic scholarship with artistic practice to explore how gender is culturally (per)formed through sound in human-nonhuman entanglements. Working with the queer materiality of sound as it appears and disappears in-between human and nonhuman actors, object, and environments, Luca proposes thinking through sound as both an artistic research method and a trans*formative politics towards non-binary and anti-essentialist conceptions of the worlds we inhabit.