An immersive installation is many things, but architectural behavior design is one. Architects are most often very concerned with protecting the users from have disturbing experiences. Crucial is to have eye for where the borders should be between privacy and what is allowed to be a socially shared experience.

There are countless techniques, strategies, compartmentalizations, based on pre-assumptions which are automatically applied when creating a structure.

a critical mass of people, especially a body of (party) people organized around a sound system and the pull, are granted some sort of autonomy by society. Outside of this body in the more regulated and common world, behavioral norms are much more regulated, mostly through simple signs and symbols.

Art and culture are one place where we can deconstruct the pre-conditioned assumptions and generally accepted norms to maybe pause. maybe reconsider. maybe consciously choose, maybe role-play, but always acknowledge the many voices of authority we are constantly surrounded with.

Hijacking these symbols and using it towards a different end, can be a tool to consciously break free from the normative, binary, close-minded (aka straight) psychological power signs and symbols quitely but persistently can hold.

The installation ‘Trauma Unclogged” is set up purposefully somewhat disorienting, disrupting the common courtesy, and an invitation to the visitors, to reconsider, and reestablish another logic on how to co-occupy the space, in which the systems we built can take shape.

A reminder that we actually can invent and build other worlds, reestablish different social norms, and repurpose, decentralizing and diluting a close-minded uninspired world around us. It is surprisingly powerful to qu estion the reliability and trustworthiness of so many quietly existing symbols of power.

Recenter and altering the meaning of language, and signs, especially signs that are “normal’ like “standard” and “neutral” are often rooted in some of the most binary belief systems.

Through this installation we want to honor Trauma her strong a commitment and ethos, that is part of a long tradition of marginalized people building subcultures out of self-protection, from queer, to drag, to kink, or anyone else with uncommon interests, dreams and desires.