Screams is a collection of short audiovisual works, created in response to a historical control and fetishisation of women’s voices. This work uses the scream as a form of gender expression – exploring it as an autonomous, controlled, abject, and reclaimed sound. Clay is used to represent gendered anatomy, blended with machine noise and imagery to blur lines of objectification.

The work aims to challenge normative representations and functions of women’s bodies and voices by reclaiming my own scream through re-synthesis and audio manipulation. Through synthesis, my scream is de-constructed and objectified, pieced back together, and reclaimed. Synthesisers allow me to tear out the abrasive textures of the scream and announce anxieties of gender oppression.

Appreciating the scream, appreciates the power of a sonic weapon most of us possess. In using basic materials, the work exists as encouragement and incitement to scream. Stitching together physical and digital materials to create a practice that allows for the reclamation of these screams. The scream is not a submission to victimhood, but instead the act that breaks us free of its confines. In screaming, we reclaim a voice, and a space once taken. As screams pass onto me, I pass on my own Scream, reclaiming an expression of pain and anger toward gender oppressions and sexual assault.

Scream, and take up space.