Suggested by John Lydon's famous description of sex as "two minutes of squelchy noises", this short audio piece compresses six months of online sex work into two minutes - a cross-section of live chatroom text comments given spoken-word form by automatic computer voices. These bland, emotionless tones act as a controlled element against the tense, charged sexual situations described in the improvised - sometimes even comical - typed comments and solicitations. The occasionally surreal overlap of statements signifies the randomness of a public chatroom environment, in which opening greetings and other salutations intersperse with flowing florid descriptions and in-progress fantasies.
The screenshots depict the actual conversations and comments from which the audio clips are derived.
This audio work may, in time, become the soundtrack to a video or performance work.
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