Word Up – Megaphone Woman performance

2019

“The organization’s ethos rumbles like a clarion call throughout the pieces. A poignant example is Jemima Burrill, AKA Megaphone Woman, who calls out the weaponized language impeding her life as a woman and an artist. The use of an antique metallic megaphone covers her lower facial profile, whilst its function amplifies her voice, an action that obscures yet intensifies. Visually, her act calls to attention the systematic silencing she experiences, whilst its amplification provides a fierce conduit for the rejection of these obstacles. These are female artists who will perforate the bullshit, and build further foundations for the leveling of a tilted playing field.” Review of NOHAT-PAF written by Cameron G Stuart