What would it feel like to be the majority?

A Kind of Ache, commissioned by The Clarice Center at the University of Maryland and supported by the Creative Work Fund, is an installation and concert length work created by composer Sarah Hennies, visual artist Terry Berlier, and TLES that deconstructs, reconstructs, and queers everyday objects in the service of creating and investigating the concept and possibility of creating “queer space.” Connected by a fascination with what they term queer objects—small thrift store hand bells and mis-matched pan lids—Hennies and Berlier collaborate in bringing these percussive objects together in a new installation imagining creating and demarcating a “queer-only” space, as this environment is nearly unattainable in every day life. What, ask the collaborating artists, would it feel like to be the majority?