Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Don't Linger - detail

Detail shots from Don't Linger while installed at Loughborough Fine Art Degree Show 2018.

Don't Linger

Don't Linger, Chaz Howkins, 2018, installation (toilet seats, pen, pencil on paper)

Don't Linger - Detail

Don't Linger - Detail

Don't Linger - Detail

Don't Linger - Detail

Don’t Linger is an interactive installation of 27 toilet seats mounted to a wall; the viewer can lift up the lids of the toilet seats to reveal portrait drawings and text.  The portraits are realistic pencil drawings of androgynous or gender non-conforming people and the text comes from their individual stories of anxiety or harassment they’ve experienced in public gendered spaces.

​Don’t Linger questions the difference between gender identity and gender expression as well as the difference between gender and sex while critiquing the rigid segregation of gender in public spaces.  The intention is to showcase the experiences of queer people navigating gendered spaces, particularly public bathrooms, in the hope of making a predominantly non-queer audience reconsider how they interact with members of the queer community within these spaces.

Are You A Boy Or A Girl?

Are You A Boy Or A Girl? (clip), Chaz Howkins, 2017, film

3 minute clip of a 30 minute film intended to be played on a loop.

Too often strangers feel that the way I look gives them the right to ask me “are you a boy or a girl?”.  I created a durational performance film of myself repeating this phrase because when people ask me this, it’s a one off experience for them, but it’s something that stays with me and continues to happen, so the idea is that the film plays continuously and the audience will dip in and out of this interrogative experience.

Disposal Bags

Disposal Bag (series),  Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph / pen on found object 

Disposal Bag (series),  Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph / pen on found object

Disposal Bag (series),  Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph / pen on found object

Exploration of transphobia in public bathrooms.

Bathroom Misgendering

Excuse Me, Sir, Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

You Know This Is The Ladies Room, Right? (series), Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

You Know This Is The Ladies Room, Right? (series), Chaz Howkins, 2017, photograph

A photographic series exploring the experience of being misgendered in a gendered space - public bathrooms.