Split Asunder: Obstetric Violence and Pain in Máiréad Delaney’s At What Point It Breaks (2017)
Split Asunder: Obstetric Violence and Pain in Máiréad Delaney’s At What Point It Breaks (2017)

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the embodiment of pain in artist Máiréad Delaney’s performance At What Point It Breaks (2017). Drawing upon the gender-based violence of symphysiotomy and its resulting pain, Delaney’s work employs an affective aesthetics and negotiates a breach in representation, thus facilitating viewer engagement with the performance as a means of critiquing the insidious control of women’s bodies and the resulting reproductive injustices in Irish society.

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