Presenting Our Selves
Cade & MacAskill
Film, 2020
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.
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.
Digital screening as part of Splayed Festival 2020 at The Place, London
The film was part of a triple bill alongside work by Mele Broomes and Malik Nashad Sharpe & Ellen Furey, and the first screening on October 16th 2020 was followed by a live online discussion on queerness and embodiment with Splayed Festival curator Amy Bell, performance maker Rachael Young and London Contemporary Dance School's Director of Research Dr. Martin Hargreaves.
Screening with Cambridge Junction in February 2021 as part of Queer Valentine’s Day celebrations
Selected for Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2021, Presented as part of ‘Aspects of the Embodied Self’ programme, followed by an artist talk by Cade & MacAskill with Jamie Rae.
Get in touch if you would like to view this 20 minute video essay.
Originally commissioned by The Place for Splayed Festival 2020.
Digital screening as part of Splayed Festival 2020 at The Place, London
The film was part of a triple bill alongside work by Mele Broomes and Malik Nashad Sharpe & Ellen Furey, and the first screening on October 16th 2020 was followed by a live online discussion on queerness and embodiment with Splayed Festival curator Amy Bell, performance maker Rachael Young and London Contemporary Dance School's Director of Research Dr. Martin Hargreaves.
Screening with Cambridge Junction in February 2021 as part of Queer Valentine’s Day celebrations
Selected for Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2021, Presented as part of ‘Aspects of the Embodied Self’ programme, followed by an artist talk by Cade & MacAskill with Jamie Rae.
Get in touch if you would like to view this 20 minute video essay.