Inside Voices, a sound/film/visual art collaboration, meditates on questions, lingers in uncertainty, and revels in changes, exploring the interior experience of questioning and forming gender and identity. Queer voices tell stories of their journeys through periods of questioning, the sound transduced through a canvas, onto which is projected an experimental film. We watch someone moving through their world, in/visibly wrestling with a question, while hands paint a wall, layering thick oil paint and found materials on an evolving surface.

The sound, hands, movement, the performativity and layers of the paint recognise and honour the layers of transgender history and activism embedded in our queer communities, acknowledging our role in the future. Queer and gender non-conforming voices are centred, vibrating the canvas, reflecting and empathising with a listener’s quiet questioning. In meditating on the personal journey, fluctuation and uncertainty, the piece seeks to validate this process of interior interrogation and exploration.