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Renowned drag queen Victoria Sin combined their drag with multimedia art forms since 2013. Alternative narration is the aesthetic prominence of their video works. In “Illocutionary Utterances”, a high definition close-up of Sin's lip-sync in audacious makeup displayed over a sound piece, exploring how speech acts influences one’s ascription of gender. Speech acts which ascribe gender outside of a subject's control are compared to speech acts of self- identity. Sounds were erased from Sin’s exaggerated mime attempts, whereas the lips still tried to sync with an altogether different …