Trailer of One Night Only, in collaboration with Emil Cañita (
@babydilfx )
Presented at
@horstartsandmusic x
@kiosk.radio
A few months ago, Emil and I began speaking about the acoustics of intimacy—what it holds, what it reveals. She, as a trans-femme artist and s-x worker; myself, as a queer sound artist. We met somewhere in between our experiences, our histories, and our shared reality of living as HIV-undetectable.
From there, something slowly unfolded:
what if intimacy could be listened to in layers?
Rituals of preparation.
Conversations with lovers.
Negotiations with clients.
And everything that follows…whispers…frictions…moans…
the weight of footsteps approaching, the quiet anticipation at the threshold of a glory hole.
I spent countless hours listening, editing, sitting with over six hours of consensual recordings.
To listen this closely.
To her
To them
From the lube pump to the sound of fabric falling, from half-spoken sentences to silences stretched across a wall, each detail began to carry its own charge, its own language.
I’m honoured to be entrusted with these recordings, shaping them into a requiem where trans bodies are celebrated, loved, desired, and free.
At times, I found myself holding space for the men who love trans bodies, whose voices are so often unheard or reduced to silence.
Installed across four separate toilets, the work unfolds through four simultaneous soundscapes, echoing across one another.
Not one story, but many…
appearing… dissolving… re-emerging…
A tarot reading.
“What if my friends knew this part of my sex life?”
Emil’s first experience with racism.
A curiosity around shibari.
Moments of gathering within a chosen queer family.
Fragments of s-x and intimacy, drifting into something melodic… something ambient.
You are invited into a space of proximity.
But how long before listening begins to feel like intrusion?
Somewhere between exposure and concealment, the work lingers—
where listening is no longer passive, but participatory.
Where intimacy takes form in the act itself.
Trans visibility day is everyday. 🏳️⚧️
( Picture 2,3 by
@nikolaevalina )