Contra Naturam takes as its starting point an utterance by William F. Buckley, Jr., a past resident of Sharon, Connecticut, often recognized as the central figure in American Conservatism. In 1987 he made the following statements regarding blind sailor James Dickson’s solo attempt to sail across the Atlantic Ocean:

“I wouldn’t take a blind person to the Grand Canyon or to the ballet. …It is profane to suppose that a cripple can run, a deaf man hear, or a blind man see. … Why would you take a blind man to a ballet? … A ballet is to be distinguished from music because it is a form of dance. … It is against nature, Contra Naturam, …” 

For Biggs, the challenges faced by the disabled come close to home: her experiences serving as guardian to an autistic aunt have become a nucleus for a number of her prior pieces. In this case, Biggs's has lodged a retort to Buckley's words via a multi-channel immersive video and sound installation crafted in partnership with Robinson. Upon entering the ICEHOUSE, the viewer is surrounded by the sounds of hands pounding walls and of sharp blades slicing across cracking ice. Multiple video images combine to create an entangled visual narrative. Using the ICEHOUSE as a physical and conceptual framing structure, Contra Naturam intercuts footage of Robinson's unique choreography performed inside the tight confines of the ICEHOUSE with video imagery of ice-boats racing across vast frozen lakes.

Using spatialized sound in both the interior installation and as a separate audio piece, Icehouse Walk, viewers will encounter heightened aspects of the human sensorium. Icehouse Walk, played on individual headphones, transports listeners to a frigid day last January. Listeners are aurally led on Robinson's sightless journey through the snow to find the ICEHOUSE. Icehouse Walk interweaves location, time, sound, and physicality, and they experience atmospheric elements as well as Davian’s stream-of-consciousness narration about his life without sight. The speaker and the listener become linked within their shared physical surroundings.