Billy (b. London, UK) works predominantly between performance and text.
Their work foregrounds the fictionality of the body and its splitness. The estrangement of established frameworks - linguistic, relational, narrative, erotic - is at its crux.
This twist pivots around language and gesture as conveyors of meaning, power and old tongues.
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Billy has most recently shared their work at Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2024), ICA, London (2024), ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam (2024 & 2023), w Brzask, Warsaw (2024), koraï project space, Nicosia (2024), Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2024), Guts Projects, London (2024), Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam (2024), Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam (2023), Au Jus, Brussels (2023), marytwo, Luzern (solo exhibition, 2022), Juf Project, Madrid (2022) and The Place, London (2022).
They have led writing and performance workshops at Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2024), Chisenhale Dance Space, London (2024), Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London (2024), Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (2024), PUBLIC LIBRARY, Edinburgh (2023) and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2023) as part of a research residency with Rhubaba in collaboration with civic soup.
Billy has performed at the Stedelijk Museum (2023), Santarcangelo Festival (2023), Manifesta 14 Prishtina (2022), Muenchner Volkstheater (2022), HAU Berlin (2021), Tanzhaus NRW (2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2019), The 58th Venice Biennale (2019), U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2019—20), Frieze London (2018) and Fundacja Galerii Foksal (2018) a.o., in the works of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Astrit Ismaili, Wojciech Grudziński, caner teker, Ania Nowak, Zander Porter, Sunny Pfalzer, 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), Cell Project Space, London (2020), published by X-Philes (Warsaw, 2023), No More Poetry (Melbourne, 2022), Krzak Papier (Warsaw, 2020), and Modern Queer Poets (Pilot Press, London, 2019) and broadcast on Montez Press Radio and Cashmere Radio (2022). Billy programmed and guided the first Queer Ecologies Reading Circle as part of the 2018—19 residency of Kem (artist-run queer-feminist group) at U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (2018).
Billy was a student of the Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, led by Mirosław Bałka (2018—19).
Billy was a student of the Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, led by Mirosław Bałka (2018—19).