Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 15 November 2024–25 February 2025

Keira Fox is a London based artist whose practice encompasses performance, choreography, sound, installation and prop making. She is one part of the performance duo New Noveta who have performed internationally since 2011. She studied her Fine Arts/Textiles Bachelors at Goldsmith College, London, graduating in 2008, beginning her musical and improvised performance practice there on.

Steel my Heart, SOTC

Collaboration is key to her practice, working collectively with artists, academics, musicians and makers to create site specific installations that are most often activated through performative interventions, costume, objects and sound. Her work deals with socio-political struggle and its effects on the body, mind and vulnerable communities, specifically linking to both current and historical female positions in society.

Her research includes heretic histories, ritual and sites, female class struggle and oppressive tools, such as surveillance, the mental health system, starting with the Salpetriere Institution at the beginnings of the psychiatry movement, to the current day pharmaceutical control over bodies. Her performance work uses props and objects as instruments of resistance, but also as protective devices, taking on different female personas over histories and aesthetics to explore and enact this constant battling with despotic rule.

Significant performances and exhibitions include Peine forte et dure Performance for Teatro Bastardo Theatre Festival, Palermo 2023; Steel My Heart Performance for Sound of the City Festival at Tanztheater-Wuppertal 2022; K.A.T. performance and Installation for the Ester Krumbachova retrospective at House of Arts, Brno 2021; Ohagn Installation and sculpture for WITCH HUNT at Kunsthal Charlottenborg-Copenhagen; Alukah abad Performance for Digital Gothic Group exhibition at Synagogue de Delme 2019 Lorraine; Baleful Touch performance for symposium at SMK Museum-Copenhagen 2019; Fateful Performance and solo exhibition/installation for The Kunstverein Freiburg 2018; Cealdwiella performance and exhibition at Arcadia Missa Gallery London 2018; Violent Amurg Performance and solo exhibition for Ludlow 38 Mini Goethe Institute-New York 2017; Zene Zelmje Performance and exhibition for Sandy Brown Gallery Berlin 2016; Chvalia Abutak Amethyst Performance for the Museum as Performance programme Serralves Porto 2016; Zahvost on the Ebre performance for the Re-Materializing Feminism programme and publication at the ICA -London 2014.