So You Say features video artists who engage with self-representation by occupying the role of the protagonist in their work. The artists are drawn from communities of practice in Stockholm and Melbourne across the spectrum of experience levels from recent graduates early in their exhibiting career to artists who have exhibited at the Venice Biennale. All of the artists combine approaches that are both thoughtful and playful toward the history of ideas that have challenged our conception of the self as innate and enduring. So You Say  focuses rather on the history of the self as a constructed, multiple and mutable entity. The corporeal nature of performance practice means these ideas are ‘lived in’ and we believe this makes an important contribution to the applied and poetic interpretation of contemporary theories of subjectivity. Performance video necessarily involves the body as site and artifact and challenges various binaries that separate form and content, self and other, thought and action, artist and audience, truth and fiction.

"So You Say" is curated by Dominic Redfern and Anabelle Lacroix and featuring work by Hans Rosenström, Jessica McElhinney, Katie Collins, Miriam Bäckström, Pål Sommelius, Will Box, ZBR Production (Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Christina Bergendahl and Rut Karin Zettergren) and Dominic Redfern.