DISORIENTATION FOR THE PUBLIC AGENCY OF TRAVEL PLANNING FOR THE OVERWHELMED
2025
What happens when you become part of the very system you're questioning?
Playing the role of tour guide within Simeen Anjum's Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed, I found myself navigating the same disorientation I was meant to narrate. Script in hand, gesturing toward a map that changed with every question, discovering in real time how bureaucracy lives in the body, in the pause, in the performance of helpfulness.
The more I guided visitors through the fictional visa process, the more I wondered what it means to offer direction inside a system that isn't built to be understood.