Jo Bannon

Jo is an artist working in performance, choreography and film. Her practice is concerned with how our specific bodies, identities and sensory perceptions impact how we experience the world around us, and how this sensory experience can or cannot be conveyed.  Her work is informed by her identity as a disabled woman with albinism and attempts to unpick the ways we look, hear and sense our immediate environment in order to rethink or make unfamiliar these intrinsic human behaviours.  Bannon’s work is led by form and so manifests in various mediums including intimate encounters designed for single or small audiences, staged performance, dance, film and installation. Her work is guided by her ongoing fascination with objects, visual perception and how strange the ordinary world really is.  

Jo has presented work in the UK, Europe, South America, USA, China, South Korea and Australia including Tate Modern, Sydney Opera House, Wellcome Collection, Sadlers Wells, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Itau Cultural Sao Paulo, The Times Museum Guangzhou and HAU Berlin. 

Recent work includes Sleight of Hand (2024) Passing (2024) Feeling Thing (2021) Absent Tense (2020) Kitchen Alba (2020, We Are Fucked (2018), Alba (2015), Dead Line (2013) and Exposure (2011).