The above video is a simulation of the installation.
Queer Voices is a projection installation and soundscape featuring the faces and voices of LGBT people, and the media malaise that surrounds them. The work was created in the lead up to the 2017 vote on gay marriage in Australia, and is a response to it.
The installation is intended to articulate what it’s like to be queer in the current social climate, illustrating the way in which the individual is often overlooked, drowned out in noise of news chatter discussing a community whilst forgetting the people within it. The installation aims to refocus discussion by sharing the stories of the people effected, forcing the viewer face to face with LGBT individuals.
First entering the space, the spectator is greeted by three faces, projected floor to ceiling across three walls. These faces look at the spectator, as the pink glow of the film fills the room. Juxtaposed against this plays a jarring soundscape; the voices of many fill the room with debate over LBGTQI+ issues. The spectator walks to the centre of the room, sits down, and faces one portrait directly. They put on the headphones provided, and the cacophony of chatter that fills the room fades away as they meet the face in front of them, and learn of their experiences
Components include:
- A cacophonous soundscape, comprised of sound bites from the media.
- Interviews with nine lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender individuals, accessible by headphones.
- Moving portraits, projected three at a time, across three walls of a room.
- Interviews with nine lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender individuals, accessible by headphones.
- Moving portraits, projected three at a time, across three walls of a room.
45 minute film, 15 minute soundscape.