The Hysterical Chorus Live is a performance that grew out of Sharon Young’s art practice and PhD research. Drawing from Freud’s case studies of hysteria and other literary figures such as Madame Bovary she wrote a sound work that revisited the symptoms of these women. The Hysterical Chorus Live is an extension of this research, and opens an invitation to all who relate to the feeling of “hysteria” as a mode of communication and an expression of freedom. There is an element of mystery and of reaching into spiritual heights that unites this chorus with Swedenborg and his writings on other realms. The collective uses artistic practice, through body and voice, to vocalise a refusal of societal norms and to reach for mysteries together.