A pair of shoes belonging to one of the witnesses at a Traumbagger event . Any participant that comes to a Traumbagger “showing” is asked to remove their shoes before the event begins. This preliminary action offers a hint of what’s to come—a Traumbagger event is participatory, ritualistic and unpredictable. The label below the shoes indicates the level of participation, the year and the number of participants that came before the owner of these shoes (01-second level participant, tr95-1995 Traumbagger Event and – 14 indicates 13 people participated before this person).