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'between the voice between the words between the work between us' appears in 'Voice as Form', a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal edited by Dr Pamela Corey and Dr Wenny Teo. Abstract: This visual/text essay reflects and reflects on some of the vocalities, vocabularies and moves in my practice since the mid-1990s, situated across moving image, installation, sound, performance, and text. Invoking the politics of speech, representation and translation, the essay offers a split and at least doubled narrative. A parallel sequence of text fragments – the one unfolding more or less chronologically, the other reversing through a series of concrete image/visual-text works, reconfigured. Then, a reverse partial chronology through images, invoking past projects, echoing and weaving back between preceding narrative fragments. The resulting coincidences, disjunctures and tensions between visual, textual and linguistic registers may suggest shifts between critical and poetic, disciplinary and discursive positions. Siting, losing, unmooring and hearing voices, acts of speaking, writing and listening are always contingent to other words and works, other histories and practices. Always-already tongue-tied and tin-eared, apparently sounding at once 'very London' and 'very Hong Kong village' – this voice is more parochial than metropolitan, more pidgin than cosmospolitan, more translocal than transnational; and possibly unreliable.

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Helium's material form is unstable, moving from gas to liquid under temperature. Lighter than air, it evades the immediacy of perception. Thinking through helium offers an approach to the entanglement of forms of matter that makes movement the locus. Helium shifts an understanding of "between" to one of motion, of phase shifts and plasticity rather than difference, in which the durability of matter—and of the human—withdraws.

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In this experimental essay authors and friends Jessica Ruffin and Simone Stirner explore the question of friendship through a dialogic exchange, engaging with friendship as a theoretical concept alongside their own personal histories and relationships. Emails exchanged beneath and between the dialogue lay bare the various registers of friendship and collaboration.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- A Queer Boy from the Valleys -- Beginnings -- Everyday life -- Being queer -- London Calling -- Forging an identity -- The lure of the city -- On the margins -- Getting political -- Dreams of Liberation -- 'The turning point of our lives' -- Doing it -- High tide -- Remaking personal life -- Writing the Revolution -- Writing as activism -- Troubling identities -- Gay leftism -- Endings and beginnings -- Making History Personal -- The personal as history -- Writing the history of homo/sexuality -- History from below -- Into sociology -- Constructing controversies -- Making links -- Love and Loss -- San Francisco: August 1981 -- 'Love and passion, still in fashion' -- Fear and loathing -- The Long March renewed? -- 'Pretended family relationships' -- In memoriam -- Intimacy Matters -- Legitimation through disaster -- Love again -- Getting better? -- Bonding -- All the Way Home -- Party time -- All change? -- Left behind? -- My tribe -- Globally yours -- Farewell -- Memory, memories -- Photographs -- 1. War time wedding 1944 -- 2. Babes in arms 1948 -- 3. With Santa, Dennis and Dad 1949 -- 4. Student 1965 -- 5. With Angus 1972 -- 6. Portrait by David Hutter 1972 -- 7. Gay Left 1977 -- 8. On the march, with Emmanuel Cooper 1977 -- 9. Gay News book award 1978 -- 10. Angus as potter mid-1980s -- 11. Mark and Jeffrey 1992 -- 12. Civil Partnership 2006 -- 13. With Mam 2008 -- 14. With Mariela Castro, Cuba 2013 -- 15. Conferencing in Mexico, November 2015 -- 16. Exhibition in memory of Angus, Ruthin, Wales, 2018, with Mark and Ziggy.

Going through a protracted period of transition since the end of the Cold War, the world order in the making is neither what was nor what it is yet to become. It is in "the middle of the future."To get our bearings in this uncertain transition, we explore the two grand post‐Cold War narratives—"The End of History" as posited by Francis Fukuyama and "The Clash of Civilizations" posited by the late Samuel Huntington. Mikhail Gorbachev looks back at his policies that brought the old order to collapse. The British philosopher John Gray critiques the supposed "universality" of liberalism and, with Homi Bhabha, sees a world of hybrid identities and localized cultures. The Singaporean theorist Kishore Mahbubani peels away the "veneer" of Western dominance. Amartya Sen, the economist and Nobel laureate, assesses whether democratic India or autocratic China is better at building "human capacity" in their societies.