Presenting Our Selves

The shows are cancelled, the nightclubs are closed, and nobody’s buying what we’re selling. In this intimate video work created in September 2020, artists and lovers Cade and MacAskill tenderly scrutinise the ways they have used the framing of live performance to discover, embody, and own their shifting identities. Weaving footage from live gigs with holiday snaps from a trip to the Scottish countryside, they contemplate the complexities of queer embodiment in different contexts - musing on looking, seeing, being, and being seen. Originally commissioned by The Place for Splayed Festival 2020.