Speak Up Mic’d Down examines the conditional promise of the microphone: an offer of amplification that can just as easily be withdrawn, flattened, or redirected.

Where “being unmuted” and “being heard” fail to align, the work invites the participant to voice their loudest appeal into a system that absorbs, dilutes, and disperses it—immersing their voice within a world that listens without listening, questioning the complicity of both the audience and the medium.