Medium: Time Based Media
Dimensions: None
Price: NFS
Description: Angel Numbers is an ongoing performance project that approaches the public restroom as both a metaphysical threshold and satirical portal for protesting the transgender bathroom ban in the United States. Emerging from the expanding legislative terrain restricting transgender movement through civic architecture, the work asks what it means to inhabit a body that is simultaneously hyper-visible and structurally refused. After three years, I enter the "men's" restroom with a trusted companion as a gesture for crossing thresholds of fear, dysphoria, and social anxiety. Drawing from numerology and the human impulse toward pattern recognition, the project considers how meaning is constructed in moments of social instability. Angel numbers often appear when one is searching for orientation; they are read as signals that transformation is already underway. The work questions, what if encountering a trans body in the bathroom is akin to seeing: 111 (new beginnings), 222 (relation), 333 (balance), 444 (trust), 555 (change), 666 (rest), 777 (truth), 888 (abundance), or 999 (completion)? The performance video uses a .GIF format, reminiscent of Y2K internet ecologies, as a method for archiving trans presence beyond duration and endurance. Its looping structure refuses the linear temporality often imposed on trans narratives by using repetition as a form of "rest". The work mobilizes video as a reflective apparatus for gendered surveillance, revealing how the body is policed and disciplined — yet trans visibility persists beyond supremacist permission, exceeding the very frameworks that attempt to contain it.
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