This is a 12-minute live sound performance that reclaims women’s pain as a form of resistance. Drawing from recordings of people with female bodies speaking about their experiences of pain, alongside my live vocal input, I use Max/MSP to transform these materials into an ongoing sonic registration of pain.

The work exposes the power structures embedded in the act of naming pain in a female body, pain that is often dismissed or rendered invisible within medical systems and social norms surrounding the body. The female body becomes illegitimate, disciplined by gendered and racial hierarchies saturated with bias.

By voicing pain through my own body, I speak and perform with other powerful women’s speeches. We register pain, asserting vulnerability as a visceral, shared mode of presence, and turning solidarity into echoes of care.