‘Woman is that creature who puts the inside on the outside. By projections and leakages of all kinds - somatic, vocal, emotional, sexual - females expose or expend what should be kept in. Females blurt out a direct translation of what should be formulated indirectly.’
Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound

All Mouth Becoming is a performance by Haley Craw and Charlotte Arculus, using ritual, movement and music, the mouth becomes a charged boundary to express embodied spiritual experience. Howling, crying, and bleeding, the symbolic becomes the real in ritual, challenging the boundaries between the internal and external experience. The suppressed wild woman is released through the mouth, her leaking barrier, her cackling howl. The female mystical experience is erotically charged, it is blood held in the mouth, sucked from Christ’s side wound, the maternal Christ loved by Julian of Norwich. Imparting embodied knowledge, a sense of connection to the memory of the space through ghostly sight, ritual is felt through the experience of
music, movement, and devotional objects. It is the language of paradox, it is and it is not blood. It is touching the unknown with drawn hands. It is touching where she may have stood. The self is annihilated through intuitively led ritual, Arculus’ music becomes Craw’s voice, their bodies merge. The shared body is connected to the charged space it fills, the voices of Medieval women crawl through the centuries.