Billy (b. London, UK), works across text, performance and video.
The estrangement of established frameworks -- linguistic, relational, [folk] social, familial, erotic, algorithmic, territorial, historical -- becomes an embodied queer politic.
Language, as a conveyor of meaning, power and old tongues, is never far from thought.
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Billy has shared work most recently at Tteerriibbllee Space, Amsterdam (2023), marytwo, Luzern (solo exhibition, 2022), Juf Project, Madrid (2022), The Place, London (2022), Eau Salon, Zürich (2021), Salon 14, Warsaw (2020), Cosmos Carl (2020), Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2020), K21 Düsseldorf (with Moritz Krauth, 2020) and Kem Warsaw (2020).
Billy has performed at Manifesta 14 Prishtina (2022), Muenchner Volkstheater (2022), HAU Berlin (2021), Tanzhaus NRW (2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2019), The 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej (2019—20), Frieze London (2018) & Fundacja Galerii Foksal (2018), among others, in the works of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Astrit Ismaili, Ania Nowak, Wojciech Grudziński, caner teker, Sunny Pfalzer, Zander Porter, Paca Faraus and Małga Kubiak.
Billy’s texts have been performed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2021), K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie, Hamburg (2021, in the film work of Przemek Kamiński), Cell Project Space (2020, in the performance of Krzysztof Bagiński), published by No More Poetry (Melbourne, 2022), Krzak Papier (Warsaw, 2020), and Modern Queer Poets (Pilot Press, London, 2019), broadcasted on Montez Press Radio and Cashmere Radio (2022), and read aloud at 'Do You Host?', an event curated by Eliel Jones for Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej (2018).
Billy is a founding member of civic soup, an Edinburgh-based collective working in the realms of spatial activism, research and design. They are currently in residence at Rhubaba, instigating a programme ‘On Body And Place’ that examines intersections between embodied practices and spatial theory. Billy programmed and guided the first Queer Ecologies Reading Circle on 'Queer Placemaking', as part of the 2018—19 residency of Kem (artist-run queer-feminist group), also at CSW (2018).
Billy studied at the SNDO, Amsterdam (2020—2022) and was a student of the Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, led by Mirosław Bałka (2018—19).
Billy is a founding member of civic soup, an Edinburgh-based collective working in the realms of spatial activism, research and design. They are currently in residence at Rhubaba, instigating a programme ‘On Body And Place’ that examines intersections between embodied practices and spatial theory. Billy programmed and guided the first Queer Ecologies Reading Circle on 'Queer Placemaking', as part of the 2018—19 residency of Kem (artist-run queer-feminist group), also at CSW (2018).
Billy studied at the SNDO, Amsterdam (2020—2022) and was a student of the Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, led by Mirosław Bałka (2018—19).