Australian artist Eugenie Lee evokes the chronic pain of endometriosis in high-tech experiential artworks

Eugenie Lee has strapped a thick, strange-looking belt, a kind of torture device, to gynaecologist and endocrinologist Dr Natasha Andreadis.

The custom-built haptic device gives the wearer pelvic pain-like sensations, and at first, Dr Andreadis’s descriptions of the experience are fairly innocuous: “I’m feeling like my organs, woah, are really getting a deep massage.”

But once Lee ratchets up the intensity level, Dr Andreadis says “it’s like someone’s punching you and they’ve got spikes on their knuckles”.

Dr Andreadis then starts swearing and is lost for words for a moment, before asking: “Do people have to go through this every month? … [It feels like] ripping, tearing, crazy sharp.”

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Lee is a Korean-Australian…