Talker #7: Jo Fong

Giles Bailey, Jo Fong

Summary

Talker is an interview zine about performance by Giles Bailey.Issue #7 is a conversation with Jo Fong.Though her background is as a dancer, performing as part of Rosas, Rambert Dance Company, Mark Bruce Company and National Dance Theatre Wales among many others, she also works across film, theatre and the visual arts. Her own work is distinguished by an open, self-aware process and an innovative and expansive approach to research and rehearsal.This interview begins with her ongoing project Ways of Being Together, a series of workshops, discussions and performances centered on the idea of belonging. Jo goes on to share insights into her working methods and discusses her complex relationship to dance, the difficulty of speaking and the impulse to do so.Giles Bailey is an artist based in London. He works with performance, using texts, video fragments and choreographies to explore how knowledge and meaning are generated through relationships with others. Since 2016 he has published Talker.Additional issues of Talker have featured Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Spalding Gray with Kathy Acker, Dora García, Paul Maheke, Clifford Owens, Barby Asante, Gustav Metzger, Miranda July, and Agus Nur Amal PMTOH.

Available since: 06/30/2025.

Print length: 24 pages.

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