An interactive queer horror story about how fear and desire are closely intertwined.
Ezra Menard
This Unrelenting Skin is an English-language interactive body horror experience. Together, the artist and a participant play out a story for an intimate audience. The participant plays Henry: a man looking for romantic connection with other men, but whose own fears and anxieties constantly hold him back. Henry undergoes a bodily transformation that brings him in direct conflict with his own desires. Searching for solace in a small gay club bathroom, Henry encounters a barmannamed David and discovers that he is perhaps not as alone as he thinks. Through means of the horror genre, inspired by transformative play and LARP (live-action roleplay), the participant and audience are invited to find the beauty in being different and to come in contact with their own desires, even if it feels scary.