Queer Voice June 12, 2010

Presenting video, installation, scripts and audio works, this group exhibition foregrounds the voice as a material in contemporary art - in particular, a queer voice. Manipulated, mediated or otherwise affected, the voice present in these works both signals a disengagement with gender norms and with everyday conventions of communication. Casting light on what it means to "sound strange," they insist that the viewer become a listener too, engaging with art works that are performative and narrative in nature. Conducted more as an investigation than survey, this exhibition focuses on the work of eight artists across three generations. Starting in the 1960's, when new technology first popularized audio tape recording, and moving into the present, when the strangeness of hearing one's own voice is increasingly part of internet and digital culture, it draws out a cross-generational conversation around queer identity and non-oppositional representations of gender, in which male and female attributes coexist in a subjective voice.