Moot Moot
In a surreal telephone talk show, two brilliant performers Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill take on modern technological communication as identical hostesses/hosts. Grim, malicious, and at the same time with choreographic and linguistic hyper-precision, they spin a thick web of clichés and slogans – a twosome alone in their echo bubble, lost in outer space.
A completely absurd evening full of humor and surprising warmth, accompanied by a strange, wild soundscape by Yas Clarke.
Moot Moot is a sharply drawn, virtuoso artistic performance about loneliness and closeness and the pitfalls of our technological communication in echo chambers.
Top-notch entertainment!
★★★★ «Sharp, smart and seriously entertaining» The Herald
★★★★★ «Spooky, sinister, skilful» VoiceMag
★★★★ «A side-splitting spectacle that highlights our modern era’s destruction of opinion with captivating use of sound and minimal set.» The List
Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based artist who mainly works in live performance. While the form of their work varies and emerges in response to the specific context or inquiry with which they are engaging, it is rooted in queer feminist discourse and straddles performance, live art, and activism. Almost all of their work is collaborative and takes place in different contexts including theatres, galleries, urban public spaces, nightclubs, and cabaret settings.
Rosana is drawn to liveness as a potent site for connection with an «other’» and their work often explores the joy and difficulty of connecting intimately with others. This quest for connection is part of their queer activism and a commitment to creating a world with greater empathy and understanding between different people.
Rosana is dedicated to developing collaborative practices and discovering ways to work together in order to better understand how to live together. They are co-founder of the radical performance collective //BUZZCUT// which supports live art and experimental performance in Glasgow with a strong community-focused ethic. //BUZZCUT// has presented six annual five-day international performance festivals in the period 2012–2017 and regularly programs other performance events throughout the year.
Ivor MacAskill (formerly known as Eilidh) is a trans live artist based in Glasgow creating both solo performance work and collaborative projects as artistic director of Fish And Game and as co-creator of The Polar Bears. His highly original works are entertaining and experimental both in content and form, straddling theatre, live art, and visual art. There is a particular focus on creating innovative work for children and adults in a range of settings and contexts. Current projects include STUD, a solo performance for adults exploring masculinity, gender, DIY, and horses, which has toured to London, Dublin, and Auckland; MOOT MOOT, created with Rosana Cade and Yas Clarke; and, The Polar Bears Go Up!, a children’s show created with Fiona Manson, directed by Lee Lyford, and co-produced with The Unicorn Theatre: a funny and adventurous show for two- to five-year-olds made in April 2016, which is now touring internationally.
Ivor is also a freelance performer, dramaturge, and facilitator for a variety of other organisations and artists.
Ivor was recently supported by Imaginate as a research artist leading Gendersaurus Rex, a major new project exploring gender, sexuality, queerness, and difference in children’s performance, which then led to him being the lead artist of the EU-funded PUSH project.
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