Trauma dump (if I belong in the bin, the bin is a cute-sexy-queer place to be), 2022

Found bins, felt, strip lighting, photographic prints, projector, short film

Variable Dimensions

8 minutes

This work was developed on Kaurna Country

Warning: This work addresses trauma, sexual assault, and depicts bodily fluids.

Location: DB4-09A

 

 

“Complaint seems to catch how those who challenge power become sites of negation, the complainer as container of negative affect, a leaky container, speaking out as spilling over.” –Sarah Ahmed
 

Inspired by the dystopian horror of Roe v. Wade and the ‘get in the bin’ meme culture of Covid-19, Trauma dump commenced through subverting adverse experiences with laughter as medicine. Incorporating personal sensibilities for collection of abject objects, hyper fixation, and laughter as medicinal manifestation, the bin expresses ‘use me, I am for you, I am at your service.’ It exists to contain other’s trash, to be ostracised from the home. The home is neurotypical life, that which I am separated from physically and conceptually. The bin is neurodivergency. Queer theory and “complaint” are implemented as forms of protest. Trauma dump’s queer clowning aims to enamour the voyeur, albeit protesting with a fist up the heteronormative, binary, neurotypical supremacist ass.

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