"Using both pro- and anti-transgender language, and a hybrid internet meets archaic language inspired by the poet Jos Charles, this work exposes the manipulation and contradiction of transmisogynist statements."
Speaking without words shows a black background on which white words appear. These are frequently misspelt, or spelt phonetically.
Winter has said in an interview with the Gus Fisher Gallery, "The video Speaking without words is an amalgamation of phrases, both from pro-trans and anti-trans people, with the intention of exposing and rerouting some of the damaging language through language play."
This work is discussed by the artist on CIRCUIT Cast 90.
This work departs from a transcription of a conversation between Governor Grey and Wiremu Tako Ngātata, or Wi Tako, (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Ruanui) in 1896.
This work plays with a form of “drag”, both visually and temporally, to embody the existence and continuity of queerness through time and space.
Aliyah Winter and Laura Duffy
In the second part of our podcast series Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image, host Robbie Handcock speaks to Laura Duffy and Aliyah Winter about recent collaborations, and how to image queer lives, queer histories, queer youth.
