Interrogation in situ

Interrogation (in situ)

An experiment to see how the artwork would look placed atop a real toilet - perhaps in future I could create these portraits with slogans as stickers to be stuck under the lids of public toilets as a form of activism. 

Interrogation

Installation view

Installation view 

Interrogation, Chaz Howkins, 2017, acrylic on scratched toilet seat and lid

A self portrait painted on the underside of a toilet seat lid.  The artwork should be positioned closed on top of a plinth so that the audience has to interact with it to reveal the painting.  Once the lid is opened the audience should then notice the text scratched into the lid around the portrait which can only be seen up close.  The text is a series of phrases which have been said to myself or other gender non conforming people while using the women's bathroom.

Transphobia posters

Poster in situ 

Transphobia Poster, Chaz Howkins, 2017, digitally created poster

After adapting the sanitary bags to read "please dispose of transphobia in the bin provided" I felt this would be an appropriate slogan for a poster so created posters which I placed on the walls of public bathrooms.

Ladies Room

Ladies Room, Chaz Howkins, 2017, installation

Ladies Room, Chaz Howkins, 2017, installation

Ladies Room, Chaz Howkins, 2017, installation

Ladies Room, Chaz Howkins, 2017, installation

This interactive artwork encourages the audience to take a tissue from the toilet tissue dispenser and then either keep it or add it to the pile on the floor.  Each tissue has written on it a quote from real life experiences in a gendered space - the women's bathroom.  The quotes come from either my own experiences of presenting androgynously or the experiences of those who present themselves similarly to myself.

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.