Architectures of Failure

Architectures of Failure (2025), developed for The Flip Side of the Coin and presented at Chemist Gallery, extends this inquiry into the spatial and institutional conditions that shape access, visibility, and belonging. Working across performance and installation, the project examines how bodies are disciplined through architectural design and bureaucratic systems, using the bathroom and the gallery as sites where care and control intersect. A domestic bathroom becomes a threshold space where private acts of self-maintenance are rendered visible yet inaccessible, mirroring the contemporary policing of trans bodies and the slow violence of exclusion embedded in everyday infrastructures. In the gallery, a toilet physically chained to my body materialises the psychological and material constraints of gendered and institutional categorisation. Through durational action, audience participation, and acts of blockage and rupture, the work stages refusal as a method proposing failure as a generative strategy for reimagining autonomy, care, and collective responsibility. The work unfolded as a two-hour performance and installation.