JO HAUGE

Jo Hauge is a Norwegian live artist based in Glasgow. They make performances that embrace stickiness, clumsiness & poor impulse control, using stream-of-consciousness text, confusing soundscapes & a purposeful lack of clarity to create a sense of pleasurable overwhelm.

In 2021 Hauge was a recipient of the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund and spent a year developing their practice into a sustainable, accessible and inherently neurodivergent practice. A key part of this is working collaboratively and slowly, as well as giving the artistic content the space to be as neurodivergent and original as it can be, slowly working out its own neurodivergent logics rather than relying on established ways of making meaning. Jo's work incorporates body-based practices inspired by a strong history of live art practice from the UK, Norway and further afield.

Jo also makes work with other people, and has collaborated/performed with Nicol Parkinson, Louise Orwin, Daniel Oliver, AJ Turner, Owen Parry and femme feral, among others.

They have shared work in the UK and internationally, for example at Døgnfluer Festival (Norway), D'CLINIC (Hungary), Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, the Barbican, Steakhouse Live, The Marlborough Theatre, Latitude Festival, South London Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre and Camden People’s Theatre.

They have an MA in Performance from Queen Mary University of London, and are currently researching how contemporary neurodivergent performance practices offer a range of strategies for decentring pathological understandings of neurodivergence.