“Created by Angelina Noelle, machine / angel / sickness is a devised research piece conducted by a group of multifaceted artists that aims to investigate, wrestle, and engage with the myth of the chronically ill body. Utilizing the framework of the threshold within the “Magical Girl" genre (see source list anime: madoka magica). machine/angel/sickness [m/a/s] sits to question societal expectations for baseline health and the rituals found; when reaching an internal limit for pain. 

“No general theory about pain. Each patient discovers his own, and the nature of pain varies, like a singer's voice, according to the acoustics of the hall.” — Alphonse Daudet.”