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All Faggots Drown
Graphic Design & Participatory Installation
2023
All Faggots Drown is a participatory design installation about the unacknowledged Utrecht Sodomy Trials in 1730. These trials marked the deaths of countless queer men who were used as scapegoats for the natural disasters happening at the time. Due to the homophobic believes, that they were the ones responsible for these horrific events, they were hunted down and usually drowned, as religious punishment for their sodomy. The installation consists of a 10 meter long piece of fabric informing about this event and filled with all of the names of the killed ones. The names were extracted from an 18th Century English newspaper archive and organised by month and day. Each visitor is welcome to pick a sticker with the date that a person was killed on and position it under their name as a gesture of aknowledgement and care. The title serves as a commentary on the violence experienced by these people at the time.
Part of the ‘Liquid Affordances’ Exhibit @ The Rozet, Arnhem, 2023Linen & Heatpress
30 x 1000 cm