Cannach MacBride

I am a white, trans, Scottish artist, writer, and editor. I make things with writing, sound, performance, installation, and video.

To develop my work I share time in places, I share time with people, I make recordings, I write, I organize gatherings where different people share their experiences and knowledge with one another. Outcomes of these processes involve exhibitions, publications, mixtapes, workshops, textiles, walks, and more.

My academic research focuses on both more-than-sonic listening and the ontological understandings of sound that different ways of thinking about listening emerge from, to attend to the relations and regimes of power embedded within them.

Much of my creative practice is concerned with modes of attention and awareness, and the politics and power relations that are implicitly or explicitly embedded within different practices of listening. My research explores more than aural forms of listening where the temporality of reverberation is understood to be extended across generations and wonders what modes of listening attention are necessary for decolonizing work within the colonial context of Europe, particularly for people with white ancestry.

I collaborate in various ways. I have made a theatre performance with small groups of collaborators and have collaborated within performance and sound works led by other artists. At the moment, I collaborate with Taraneh Fazeli and a group of artists, writers, and activists who are co-producing a series of texts and tools about the overlaps between disability justice, decolonizing processes, community care, and environmental justice. In the past, I co-organised Tender Center, a queer community centre for creative collaboration, activism, study, community support, and celebratory events.