Her JoBurg Scenario 2
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- Participants receive an instruction card which will guide them through the preparation stage of the experience. Tapping into the exhibit with the QR code will provide access to the initial changing room staging area.
- Please Scan Your ticket to begin your experience
- Participant must wear a designated outfit. The experience of wearing women's clothing is intended to create an immediate sense of vulnerability. By feeling the different ways in which their bodies are constricted and revealed by the fashion that the world expects women to wear men should be able to viscerally experience what it's like to be self conscious about your body, your clothing, and how you will be perceived.
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- Spending time in a mirrored environment where they are left with nothing else to do but take in their appearance should heighten this sense of vulnerability, and replicate the hyper-awareness that women experience of not just how they see themselves, but of how others see them as well.
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- In the next phase of the experience, once the participant has been psychologically and emotionally primed to feel vulnerable, they will navigate their way through an environment which replicates what it's like to feel as though you are being watched or followed. Immersed in a streetscape scenario, participants will walk down a street as the light progressively dims, the harder it becomes to see the more vulnerable one feels, and the focus shifts to the way that sound is amplified when you are on alert. Participants should feel very aware of the sounds of cars approaching and passing by, having men honk, catcall, or otherwise draw unwanted attention to your physicality.
- After the experience of having your every move highlighted the participant proceeds towards progressively darker and isolated scenarios. The experience evokes the fear of physical intimidation and sense of diminished control over your safety that comes with having to walk in a confined and poorly lit space, such as an alleyway or area where the street lighting has gone out. A landscape which might in daylight appear pretty familiar becomes unfamiliar and unsettling as it falls into the shadows.
- As your vision becomes less stable your attention is heightened to the sounds that break through an otherwise eerie nighttime quiet, the sounds of approaching footsteps, heavy breathing that you're not quite sure if it belongs to you or someone who is following or watching you from nearby, your rapidly increasing heart rate. The temperature of the space will be manipulated to induce the feeling of nerves/cold sweat as you move toward the next scenario.
- In this part of the experience the participant finds themselves in a room surrounded by what seem like innocent every day interactions, the types of conversations that they might previously have had with women. The participant can hear the man's side of the verbal conversation while hearing the corresponding thoughts of the woman they are engaging with.
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- As the scene continues the voiced thoughts will become louder and the walls will appear to close inwards. By creating a sort of sensory overload where the participant becomes ever enveloped by the cacophony of thoughts, and a room that feels like it's getting warmer as it closes in on you, the participant should be left with a sense of what it feels like for a woman to walk around constantly having to anticipate and respond to potential threats.
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- The final stage of the experience brings the participant into a gallery space where they can view the experience walls which women woven together from their personal stories. Finally, the young men will be presented with the opportunity to participate in building a corresponding experience map, which asks them to reflect on their own past behaviour by drawing connections between statements which reflect behaviours they have engaged in which might have contributed to the pervasive fear that the women around them live with.
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