Eight separate interactive stalls present a unique sensory and psychological experience, employing mirrors, disappearing text, recorded voices, sound distortion, and physical restrictions to immerse participants in the discomfort survivors often face. By doing so, this installation moves beyond traditional awareness campaigns and creates a visceral, transformative encounter that directly challenges the normalization of harmful behaviors in male-dominated spaces.
This project is intended to be highly adaptable for public and institutional spaces, including government buildings, universities, art galleries, and corporate diversity and inclusion programs.
Why This Project is Urgent & Necessary
Despite decades of advocacy and education, gender-based violence remains a critical issue:
1 in 3 women will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
Men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators yet remain largely absent from direct engagement in prevention efforts.
This installation offers a physical, embodied experience that forces men to engage in the conversation in a deeply personal way.
Project Structure & Installation Design
Scalability & Flexibility
5-Stall Core Installation: Designed for smaller venues with a streamlined but powerful experience.
8-Stall Expanded Installation: A more immersive version for larger institutions seeking deeper engagement.
Integration with Existing Programs
Designed to complement violence prevention initiatives, diversity and inclusion strategies, and public art programs.
Can be paired with facilitated discussions, educational workshops, and community outreach efforts.
Includes data collection options, such as visitor surveys and feedback forms, to measure impact and refine engagement strategies.
Key Themes & Stall Experiences
Each stall is a self-contained but interconnected experience, exposing participants to different facets of gendered power dynamics, coercion, and accountability.
The One-Way Mirror Stall – Participants feel watched and exposed, mirroring the scrutiny and judgment survivors face when speaking up.
The Urinal Stall – Overhead speakers play locker-room style misogynistic language, forcing participants to confront the normalization of harmful rhetoric.
The Choice Stall – A forced-choice scenario illustrates coercion, demonstrating that “Yes” is not always a true choice when “No” isn’t an option.
The Confessional Stall – A space where men read and contribute anonymous confessions about complicity and accountability.
The Silence Stall – Text on the walls disappears over time, symbolizing the erasure of survivors’ voices when no one listens.
The Weight Stall – A scale displays statistics on gender-based violence instead of weight, reinforcing the unseen burden of trauma.
The Role Reversal Stall – A darkened stall with numerous peepholes and shifting shadows simulates the fear of being watched and unsafe.
The 21 Seconds Stall – A locked stall with a countdown timer and escalating audio, illustrating how quickly gender-based violence can unfold in just 21 seconds—the average time it takes to urinate.