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Liz McDade<br />
liz.mcdade@outlook.com | 07891 445989 | lizmcdade.viewbook.com<br />
My practice is fuelled by political, social and cultural<br />
issues surrounding gender identity, gender<br />
constructs, and sexuality. I create ethnographic,<br />
performative works, within which I explore myself<br />
breaking constructed gender boundaries through<br />
the means of an alter ego. I draw influence from an<br />
ever growing set of sources, Drag Queens, Drag<br />
Kings, Club Kids, Sadie Benning, Claude Cahun, Frida<br />
Kahlo, Ana Mendieta, Aurora Reinhard and Heather<br />
Cassils. I respond to the fact that these individuals<br />
have radically defied the physical appearance of the<br />
male and female norm.<br />
For me performing is a kind of out of body<br />
experience. I brand my performative self as my<br />
opposite, and use my bedroom as the setting.<br />
Chosen for its privacy, privacy broken by the camera<br />
and film lens, the performances are private until<br />
reviewed, edited, and burned to disc or printed as<br />
images onto paper. Privacy allows my alter ego to<br />
overcome my ego, and the separation of personas<br />
remains, as it is my ego that dictates what, if<br />
anything, is made public from the performance.<br />
Performing as my alter ego allows me to express my<br />
thoughts and feelings surrounding societal gender<br />
norms and what little space is offered to the queer<br />
community.<br />
‘Ode to Aurora’, 2015 (video still shot on Ilford FP4 film)<br />
‘Prototype’, 2014 (screen shot, video<br />
and audio HD 1080p)<br />
‘Prototype 2, 2014 (screen shot, video<br />
and audio HD 1080p)<br />
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