Navigating the city as a Queer person can present challenges in which public spaces and surveillance discipline can play a role in the queer identity. Cities follow a biopower design which facilitates encounters within their population, where these encounters still have a legacy of colonial and western power play with a tendency to control and discipline populations. The encounters are framed as happenings against the other, underscoring the exotification and biopower of these encounters and the psychogeographical effects of self-discipline in public spaces.

In one element of the installation, I explored my identity in the form of self-portraits, where I asked questions about gaze and perceptions of identity in public spaces. Another element in the installation is my perceptions of those encounters and the effects of those happenings on myself. In the second element of the installation, I use colour-coded documentation to explore the correlation between the gaze and the perceptions of the encounters in public spaces. The data collected of the time, location, perceived gender, perceived gaze and the effect on me is a visual representation of a systematization of the observations about the encounters in relation to people staring at me. I used the colours pale blue, rose, pale yellow, and pale green as coded documentation and as a colour-based system to display my perception of the encounters and their relation to biopower in public spaces and the psychopolitics in urban design. In the third element of the installation, I used the same colour-coded information to create a collage as a subjective conception of the public space, externalizing the experience of those encounters and its relationship with the space as a system of regulation of self-identity by taking photographs of the public spaces where the encounters happened.