Video performance, 4 screen, 4 min 
Medium: Paper cups and strands of my hair

SHUSH is a sound-based performance that explores gendered censorship through intimate, yet subtle, gestures. Using strands of my hair and paper cups as simple instruments, I perform four distinct sounds, each recorded in a separate frame. These are then played simultaneously to build a crowded, chaotic noise.

The work speaks to the layered silencing of women, particularly in patriarchal and militarised contexts. Inspired by Meredith Tax’s writing on gendered censorship, SHUSH reflects how women’s voices are muted, not only through official mechanisms of control, but through everyday social norms that suppress expression and exclude women from political discourse.

The overwhelming noise becomes a protest in itself, one that refuses silence.