Entry No. FZ830GM— ARCHIVE OF EMERGENT CONVERSATIONS
The Stitch That Won’t Hold
A transmedia audio documentary from the Emerging Conversations Archive.
Description:
“Even a wound needs language. Even silence must be cared for.”
A voice offers help.
A name is spoken—Fátima.
What follows is not a story, but a fracture.
A micro-resistance.
The Stitch That Won’t Hold is a narrative audio piece exploring the intersections of migration, health care, and informal networks of care in contemporary Europe. Inspired by a real conversation, this piece documents what is often erased: the moment someone asks, “Do you need me to go with you?”
Told through machine-like voices, fragmented languages, and bureaucratic whispers, the piece inhabits the liminal space between policy and poetry, between a hospital corridor and an emotional threshold.
This is not a file.
This is a body.
Still healing.
Still speaking.
Still resisting categorization.
Credits:
Created with language, breath and AI Tools + Joel De las Heras Bean
Sound design recommendations by Open Source Narratives Collective
Voices generated via Udio.
Tags:
migration · undocumented care · feminist technology · medical resistance · poetic infrastructure · artificial empathy · archive of the sensitive
Loop-safe. Subversively gentle.
Listen with headphones.
Or in a waiting room.
Or in a moment of doubt.
Entry No. FZ830GM— ARCHIVE OF EMERGENT CONVERSATIONS
The Stitch That Won’t Hold
A transmedia audio documentary from the Emerging Conversations Archive.
Description:
“Even a wound needs language. Even silence must be cared for.”
A voice offers help.
A name is spoken—Fátima.
What follows is not a story, but a fracture.
A micro-resistance.
The Stitch That Won’t Hold is a narrative audio piece exploring the intersections of migration, health care, and informal networks of care in contemporary Europe. Inspired by a real conversation, this piece documents what is often erased: the moment someone asks, “Do you need me to go with you?”
Told through machine-like voices, fragmented languages, and bureaucratic whispers, the piece inhabits the liminal space between policy and poetry, between a hospital corridor and an emotional threshold.
This is not a file.
This is a body.
Still healing.
Still speaking.
Still resisting categorization.
Credits:
Created with language, breath and AI Tools + Joel De las Heras Bean
Sound design recommendations by Open Source Narratives Collective
Voices generated via Udio.
Tags:
migration · undocumented care · feminist technology · medical resistance · poetic infrastructure · artificial empathy · archive of the sensitive
Loop-safe. Subversively gentle.
Listen with headphones.
Or in a waiting room.
Or in a moment of doubt.
