Voice Rewilding is an immersive multimedia installation combining film and textile work that explores the relationship between language, landscape, and crip time through the lived experience of stammering. Drawing on CRIP as a framework that challenges normative expectations of speed, fluency, and linear communication, the work explores stammering as an alternative temporal experience rather than something that has ‘cured’ or ‘fixed’. Engaging with the phenomenology of stammering, it considers speech as interruption, repetition, anticipation, and pause, creating space for voices to have their own autonomy while living parallel with the natural rhythms and unexpected nature of the landscape. Through interviews and conversations with people who stammer, personal stories are brought into a metaphorical context to create visual and material language. The textile process reflects the repetitive and cyclical rhythms of both making and speaking, allowing the repetition and fragmentation to become methods of temporal shifts that embody disfluency. By drawing connections between language and the rhythms of the natural world, the installation reimagines how voice can be experienced and embodied. Stammering remains an underrepresented lived experience, often shaped by pressure to conform to fluent speech. Voice Rewilding challenges these assumptions by reclaiming crip time as a space of flexibility, autonomy and alternative ways of communicating. The installation invites audiences to reconsider voice, language, and communication, embrace difference, and allow space for new ways of experiencing voice.
