The More I Listen To My Body, The More I Hear It Screaming

Drawing on her experiences while receiving a Fibromyalgia diagnosis, artist Lauryn Youden auto-theoretically examines the socio-cultural surroundings of receiving such a diagnosis. Varying theoretically informed reflections and stream-of-consciousness listings, her text explores one of Fibromyalgia’s claimed causes: childhood trauma. By misspelling words and using grammar and punctuation as flexible devices, Lauryn creates pauses between subjects or paces how one reads. This text originated as a contribution to the exhibition «When the Sick Rule the World» at Gr_und Berlin (2019).