No Internal Thing by Flo Ray is a feverish collision of sound and voice that performs what is known as ‘inner speech.’ It’s a solo headscape, a play for one, a mental score as lithe as language itself. When speaking of the ‘inner voice’, our limited vocabulary is also misleading: Thought, says Denise Riley, is no internal thing. Just as authorship is plagiarism and speech is ventriloquy, our thinking derives from elsewhere — so that what is most ‘inner’ is actually outer: social and impersonal. The disparate parts that populate No Internal Thing wonder as they wander, navigating topics as familiar and diverse as self-loathing, aimless desire and eternal damnation. They chatter and clash and chase after narrative, troubling distinctions between inside and outside. What keeps them afloat is what threatens to capsize them: cultural myths, accusations, quotes, wisecracks, song lyrics, moral injunctions, uninvited memories, the pervasive detritus of advertising. Will it never cease?

No Internal Thing was commissioned by TACO! through Blurt - an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for live reading and performance, and synchronous live-to-air broadcast

Flo Ray is an artist whose work is broadly concerned with expressions of multiplicity: fragmentations in thought and feeling that complicate dominant cultural narratives of the singular, cohering subject. Through video, sculpture, writing, drawing and audio, she explores everyday antagonisms within, and between, what we call selves.