Psychological tests are expressions of a deeply human urge to categorize and classify a world that inevitably resists such efforts. In their attempt to separate order from dis-order— obsessively, almost— , the psychologist may, in fact, not be so far removed from the designer— or the madman.
Shifting roles between tester, tested subject and designer, I aim to set the stage to explore the visual, textual and behavioral languages through which the troubled or ‘abnormal’ mind is required to speak its truth to the psychologist. By deconstructing, bending and recontextualizing existing psychological tests into a suitcase of playfully absurd tasks and objects, the project asks: who decides what kind of sense ‘makes sense’?
