Joseph Baan
Accomplice
Joseph Baan (also known as Josephine, Jo, or any variation thereof) is interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference. They make performances, installations, texts, group works, collaborative formats, and scores that explore the spaces and relationships between the flesh and the word; change and preservation; and roles and readings of power and control in relation to affect and gestures of care. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative resurgence and to investigate ways of beings together otherwise. Their current research focuses on the liberatory potential of performance practices, proposing performance as a means to—individually and collectively—interrogate and negotiate the constraints (gender, nationality, race, economic mobility, etc.) that one is borne into.
