Artist in Residence in Stockholm, 20 November 2024–25 February 2025

Bitsy Knox is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of research, performance, radio, sound, sculpture, and writing. Her work focuses on the collapse of internal and external perception, exploring the interplay of private and social worlds touched by chaos, romance, and reclusion. Through in-depth research in Cognitive Science, Physics, Musicology, and Queer-Feminist Histories, she examines the role of personal and collective mythopoesis within socio-political structures, understanding myth as a cyclical, digestive process, in which narratives are continuously integrated and expelled to reflect desire.

Bitsy was born on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territories of the of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany.

Bitsy Knox

At IASPIS, Bitsy will elaborate on two recent projects: She will work on a publication to accompany a long-form radio documentary entitled New Friend, which traces a series of photographs taken by the filmmaker Barbara Hammer in 1973 on a small island off of the Pacific coast of Canada, and is due to be released in 2025; and a studio research into a forthcoming painting series entitled Veronicas, exploring the imprinting of experience onto intermediary surfaces as a mode of mythologizing doctrine.

Bitsy Knox received her MFA from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In recent years, she has performed and presented work at Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität (Lüneburg, 2024); Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin, 2022); Klosterruine (Berlin, 2021); Une Une Une (Perpignan, 2018); Organhaus Art Centre (Chongqing, 2014); MACBA (Barcelona, 2009); and Komplot (Brussels, 2010). Her writing has appeared in publications by e-flux, TABLOID Press, Pure Fyction, A Prior Magazine, and Sternberg Press, among others. She also releases music with her longtime collaborator, Roger 3000. Their second full-length album, The Ears of Animals, is due to be released in 2025 with Moli Del Tro Records.

Bitsy is a Guest Lecturer at Leuphana University (Lüneburg). She hosts the monthly radio show Something Like on Cashmere Radio (Berlin) and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio, and has appeared as a guest host on Kiosk Radio (Brussels), Refuge Worldwide (Berlin), Subcity Radio (Glasgow), Stegi Radio (Athens), and WFMU (New Jersey). Recent institutional radio partnerships include Kunstverein in Hamburg (with Montez Press Radio, New York City), Kölnischer Kunstverein, and Wellcome Trust/Mindscapes/Gropius Bau. Bitsy is also Deputy Editor of Pina Magazine, commissioning artists and writers to produce new exhibitions and short fiction in-print. She is also currently working on two (counter-) archival audio documentaries: one in partnership with Performance Space New York, and another in cooperation with the Barbara Hammer Estate.