Multi-disciplinary artist Jo Bragg’s practice spans writing, live performance, and still and moving image. Concentrating on the metaphysics of love and loss, their practice discloses a characteristically dangerous personal and universal sense of vulnerability, often putting their body front and centre of their performative work. 

Informed by wider research around issues of identity and gender fluidity, Bragg’s work connects with ideas of social and political anxiety, stamina, non-binary or queerness, and relies on their documentation of personal and abstracted thought processes.  

Each of these three images is a still image extracted from video documentation of ten live and private performance works, produced in response to a simple set of provocatively personal questions. Titled (in order of hang) What do you fight for?  

Where feels like home? and What’s next? For Bragg, this photographic series consistently places the androgynous body as central and necessary weaponry in our contemporary world.  

Jo Bragg (born 1994, Auckland) completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Massey University, Wellington in 2015, and a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Monash University, Melbourne in 2021. Bragg is co-founder of the artist run initiatives Meanwhile in Wellington and Friends are Artists/Freunde sind Künstler in Berlin. Bragg lives and works in Auckland.