Photo by Tiu Makkonen
Jo Hauge is a Norwegian artist/writer/researcher based in Glasgow, building slimy and loud texts, performances and moving image works. Their research and performance practice both examine how contemporary neurodivergent performance practices offer a range of strategies for decentring pathological understandings of neurodivergence. In both practice and research, Jo’s fannish, shameless and obsessive approach to their material positions Jo and audiences/readers as fellow fans with a shared investment, allowing them to create work that is trans, queer and neurodivergent, instead of that representing or explaining these experiences.
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 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 completed their PhD project Neurodivergent Performance Practice: overwhelm, multiplicity and speculation as neurodivergent logics at Northumbria in 2025, supervised by Rachel Hann and Matt Hargrave.