PainKiller Test 1.5

There’s no stage, no spotlight, no actor waiting in the wings. In this performance, pain takes the lead – not metaphorical anguish, but the quiet, cumulative kind societies learn to ignore. Instead of a script, there’s data. Sound, image, fragments of suffering fed into an automated system called ‘Pain Killer’. Audience members aren’t spectators so much as test subjects. You sit, you listen, you engage – or don’t. The system responds either way. It isn’t dramatic, but it is unsettling. You leave not with a programme but a result, a printed outcome revealing just how much pain you've learned to tolerate without flinching. The question lingers long after: what hurts have we normalised? And more importantly, when did silence become the default response? May 9-11 and 16-18. B550-1,450 via here. Buffalo Bridge Gallery, 7pm