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| Ladies Room (close up), Chaz Howkins, 2017, interactive installation |
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| Ladies Room (close up), Chaz Howkins, 2017, interactive installation |
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| Ladies Room (close up), Chaz Howkins, 2017, interactive installation |
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| Ladies Room (close up), Chaz Howkins, 2017, interactive installation |
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| Ladies Room (close up), Chaz Howkins, 2017, interactive installation |
I was very glad to see how many people interacted with Ladies Room while it was exhibited at Queer Art(ists) Now, creating a great pile of discarded toilet tissue on the floor below the dispenser. Seeing the pile of tissues grow on the floor, being trodden on, dripped on, completely discarded really emphasised the throwaway nature of the comments people make to queer people in gendered spaces. When someone in the ladies room asks me 'are you a woman?' it's a fleeting moment for them, they don't think about what they're saying, they just throw their words at me... but for me it sticks, it piles up, I can't just throw it away.
