Let Me In // Let Me Out, 2024
Interventional text adventure game for installation in public bathrooms
Let Me In // Let Me Out is an interventional, text-based adventure game that responds to political, media and social discourses around transgender rights, particularly around our access to single-gender public spaces such as bathrooms.
The work places viewers in the shoes of a trans person who is accessing a public toilet. As participants move through the narrative of the game, they must make a series of choices about how they navigate the hostile bathroom environment. The game’s installation means that when viewers make decisions which move them through the game’s fictional bathroom, they must also move through the physical bathroom where the game is installed, in order to continue playing.
For many people, toilets in public spaces and within institutions can be a small and insignificant figment of their day. However, for trans people, public toilets are spaces of great anxiety, where we often face adversity and discrimination. Furthermore, they have become central to the so called “debate” following the recent supreme court ruling.
Elodie Horsewell 