Performance staged for video
Medium: Wooden object (crafted from a stick and bowl), my hair

Her Voice explores sound, gender, and cultural identity through performance. I created a handmade object, assembled from everyday items like a Kurdish tirok (bread-making stick) and a wooden bowl, to interact with strands of my hair and produce experimental sound.

The act of using my hair becomes a way to ‘give voice’ to Kurdish women’s experiences, confronting themes of patriarchy, memory, and bodily autonomy. The object itself evokes domestic labor and carries layered metaphors: the phallic and vaginal forms of the stick and bowl mirror both sexual symbolism and architectural elements of the mosque.

The performance unfolds in two parts. First, it functions as sound art, a protest against oppression and emotional erasure. Second, the object becomes an instrument. I use the bowl for its natural echo and create sound by pulling a single strand of hair with my fingers. Over time, the strand breaks, and I continue the act with a new strand still connected to my head, an intimate, continuous gesture of resistance.