THE JOURNEY
THE JOURNEY : throat—vagina axis
A sound piece by Morena Cardoso and Carl Golembeski
The Journey
[throat—vagina axis]
Across countless generations, women have been systematically displaced from communal life—a vital structure of pre-patriarchal societies where feminine sociability once thrived. These spaces of shared rituals, risks, dreams, and emotions were reservoirs of resistance, memory, and healing. With the rise of colonial-capitalist modernity, this ancestral web was severed. Women were confined to the isolation of the private sphere, their bodies silenced by moral codes dictating what could—or could not—be expressed.
The pale tone of our grandmother’s pressed lips and the stiffness of her restrained moves are not incidental, but a deliberate political project.
From accusations of witchcraft to diagnoses of hysteria, every crack in the walls separating the inside from the outside became an opportunity for social control—a devastating biologization and individualization of collective suffering, a logic that neoliberalism recasts as endless self-management, privatized pain and self-control markets of resilience. A strangling of the jugular, suppressing the vital forces between head and heart, body and mind, through the pulsing continuum of throat and vagina.
Oppression, to perpetuate itself, corrupts the very sources of power that could generate the energy needed for transformation. In the face of dystopia—wars, climate emergencies, social collapse, and attacks on all forms of life protection—we summon remagification as an antidote. It is the fire that rekindles the desire to persist, individually and collectively.
If exhaustion, violence, objectification, and the alienation of women and their bodies are historical, so too are the movements of resistance—by women, for women, and among women.
Reclaiming the creative and desiring body demands more than a clinic that negotiates with conservative forces. It requires rupture: madness, chaos, the ridiculous, fury, the oneiric. A conjuring ritual gesture capable of breaking the spell of anesthesia, discipline, and domestication.
This sound piece denaturalizes, denounces, licks wounds, and goes ever deeper and farther. It defends the regeneration of a (po)etic and erotic territory, capable of alchemizing osmotic dialogues among self, ancestry, and the collective feminine living biosphere.
After all, who benefits from women’s anger, curses, orgasms, tears, and screams—in all their visceralities—remaining exiled to the margins, confined within four walls, when not performed, co-opted, or put in service of dominant power structures?
When a woman declares her truth as a radical act, an entire system dignifies, resonates, and moves—with her.
Morena Cardoso
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The Journey é uma experiência disponível apenas em inglês. Mas mesmo que você não compreenda o idioma, deixe-se conduzir — a entidade sonora se comunica por outros modos de linguagem: do corpo, das vibrações e afecções.
Morena Cardoso
Facilitator and creator of DanzaMedicina, a practice that has reached fifteen countries and impacted more than five thousand women through dance laboratories and immersive movement. Her research explores the boundaries between art, clinical practice, rites of subjectivation, and feminisms.
A master in Psychology, somatic therapist, and writer, Morena’s main territory of investigation, practice, and poetics is the feminine body—from the center of the bones, through the dark cavern of the womb, to the skin beneath the skin—places where memories cannot be negotiated.
A Latin woman of bittersweet medicine, Morena summons the body-territory as the first site of struggle, resistance, and insurrection against the capitalist-colonial-patriarchal order, defending domains where other languages emerge through gesture, invoking re-imaginable ways of co-existence.
Carl Golembeski
Working for more than two decades as a sound artist, vocal FX engineer, and music producer. From his early days running a DIY music space in Pennsylvania to collaborations with global icons — including Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Mary J. Blige, Madonna, and Shakira — his lifelong devotion to sound has carried him around the world and into the depths of human experience.
Deeply inspired by the philosophy of Akroasis — the theory of world harmonics — he integrates technology and spirituality to create soundscapes that call listeners toward collective awareness and radical awakening. As a Kyma system expert, he pushes the boundaries of live and studio sound, merging cutting-edge tools with the timeless art of harmonics.
Whether crafting Grammy-winning performances, designing immersive environments, or bringing experimental art to life, Carl embodies his ethos of “creativity as service”, channeling sound as a means of connection and self-discovery, awakening a sense of shared humanity that fuels collective transformation, social justice, and cultural regeneration.
This sound piece was recorded in a living clinical arena during an immersive DanzaMedicina Lab at Brave Earth, Costa Rica. The recording was initiated and captured by Kayla Chobotiuk, with overall project support and creative sparks from Maxine Shifrin, Taylor Wild. Special thanks to Karlla Girotto who inspired and guided me closer to my own inner artist. The artworks are by Renata Chebel in collab with DanzaMedicina, and the graphic design by Laura Papa.