Straitlines is a pseudo-archaeological site where space and linear timelines are queered. Like in an archaeological site, a grid is drawn to orient the space however this has been done in straitline low-permanency builders chalk so is ephemeral and prone to disruption. UV light is used to highlight the chalk and accentuate the disorder as queer moments. Above the lines loom five ceramic pulleys covered in bitumen to suggest a weighty and laborious excavation. Fragments of pulleys lie in the space with rubble, perhaps the pulleys themselves have been excavated. Two phallic ceramic ‘wizard hats’ stand erect and are bound by rope. What the real bronze-age ‘wizard hats’ were used for is a mystery to archaeologists. Beside a stone pillar, a monitor plays a series of 3D-scanned Neolithic balls (equally mysterious), fondled by a digital gloved hand. A second screen plays another digital artefact, a 3D scanned ceramic wheel, forever rotating. Nearby, a raw (clay) bone is being pulled from a silhouette of a thigh high stiletto boot (a 500-year-old male body was found in the Thames wearing leather thigh highs). Like in underground spaces, lighting is near absent, darkness becomes the lubricant for queer moments and happenings.
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