Fratila re-thinks and re-imagines how disabled persons have a role to play in the pro-jected ‘future’ using sound as a primary medium. As public and private spaces con-verge and set categories like the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ become more and more inse-parable, the disruption of an exclusionary framework becomes a priority for artists, researchers and curators alike. Rather than merely taking up existing public spaces as a ‘disabled’ sound artist/researcher, she engages her audience in dialogue around the future and potential for ‘disability’. Fratila’s work considers the ways in which our growing use of/growing reliance upon digital technology and media can give way to ‘disability’ being employed towards progress and understood as necessary to our fu-ture, with specific reference to her multimedia installation, Durere (translated from Romanian: Pain), a motion-sensor activated instrument that weaves together interac-tivity and disability against the backdrop of an ever-evolving ‘future’ using sound, video and 3D-printed models of the weights she uses daily for her chronic illness.