aesthetic lens into a shared sensibility, and the community’s relationship with performance.  Queer people know so much about performance in many different ways: code switching, drag, affect, camp. Queer spaces, physical sites or social life, both provide freedom but are also able to isolate us. This installation incorporates CRT TVs and objects that fall within the canon of queer camp - the obsolete and discarded, yet tragically beautiful and joyous. This passageway ends with the viewer entering into a new space that feels vast yet enclosed - you are surrounded by sheer fabrics receiving projections that surround you with people, creatures, objects, and things yet seeing through to the other side and diffraction it creates through repetition of recreation. Footage includes both old and new - videos from our previous hybrid installation/dance party, Haunted Body: Haunted House, interspersed with video of the event itself. We aim to encapsulate the contradictory experience of being surrounded in community but also being stuck in the riveting loneliness of the underground, and looks at how the bliss and utopia within these spaces can also morph into disconnection as we are faced with the clashing realities of our forced performance in the public sphere and our love for performance and the grandiose. By inserting the viewer into these spaces, visually and psychologically, we aim to explore their inherent strengths as places where we can live within the strangeness, define new meanings, and what our happiness can look like - and the limitations of its reality.