Tokenisability Assessment
A game in ten floors. The player answers the Standardised Consolation Device, a veiled cement figure that measures how easily an institution could hold them up as proof of its own openness.
Each floor tests one mechanism. How rare you were in your last group show. How early your country appears in your bio. Whether your work carries a wound, and which words in your statement the application forms are trained to hear. How you pay the rent. The questions come from the literature on tokenism and from what artists say about the calls they answer.
The player descends a spiral staircase, one turn per floor, while the music darkens with each answer. The stairs end in a cave lit by small candles, where a door opens onto the real world. At the bottom the device issues a certificate with a percentage and a tier, from Indigestible to Standardised. It is valid for any residency or funding body that asks for proof of difference. It expires when you stop being new.