Seen but Not Heard

About

This transdisciplinary project brings together interweaving perspectives from visual arts, graphic design, experimental sound composition, clinical practice, socio-political engagement, and activism. It was developed and carried out by a team of individuals positioned along intersecting axes as Black woman, person of colour, genderqueer, woman of colour, and with a family history of forced migration as well as personal migration experience.

“Seen but not Heard” visualized lived experiences of discrimination and structural inequality in the German healthcare system.

Developed as part of a transdisciplinary project, the work transformed firsthand accounts into musical notations – rendered tactile through embossing and debossing in lead. Through our collaboration regarding the silencing and marginalisation produced by systemic conditions of healthcare, three sculptures were created, that intend to confront us with what is present yet unheard.