Where Does It Hurt? (1996)

Where Does It Hurt? (Walter Phillips Gallery off-site, Banff Centre for the Arts, Calgary, 1996) was an installation of hundreds of used artist books, text books, and self-help books accompanied by a series of film screenings.

For this work Busby gathered books from the Banff Centre Artists' Book Collection, the Banff Centre Library, the University of Calgary Library, and her own Self-Help Library, and installed them as discrete collections embedded into the walls of the gallery. Visitors could read these volumes—which included titles such as Landscapes of Fear, Aches and Pains, and The Courage to Heal—in the "reading room" at their leisure over the course of the exhibition. Artist films which centred topics of pain and pain management were also screened on rotation, including Lorna Boschman's Scars (1987), Alanis Obomsawin's Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993), and Marjorie Beaucage's Good Grief (1994).

Where Does It Hurt? built off of Busby's earlier Self-Help Library which was first exhibited at the New Museum for Contemporary Art (New York, 1994) as a response to Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours exhibition. In 2014, Busby re-articulated this work at Artspeak (Vancouver) for the exhibition Where Does It Hurt?, curated by Jonah Gray, who borrowed the title from this exhibition.

These library collections are part of a larger body of work which focus on pain and its management, other works include How... (2001), Testdrive (2002), and the collaborative anthology, When Pain Strikes (1999).