Niall Jones

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Niall Jones is an artist, performer and teacher based in New York City. His work navigates a constellation of curiosities, obsessions and practices that move across dance, performance, sound, text, photography and video. Jones constructs immersive, liminal sites that attend to sensual, collective registers of fiction, dis/order, dis/placement and in/completeness. Growing up in the American South in Richmond, Virginia, he played saxophone and trombone in middle school and high school. These instruments taught him how to play, how to glide, how to navigate the discrepant notes, rhythms, timings, positions and contradictions between blackness and queerness, selves and others. David Wojnarowicz says, “Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.” Jones continually returns to this quote as a study in elasticity, plurality and the pleasures of navigating the beautiful complexities of being together on this planet. When he found dance in college, dancing felt like something that mattered. Dancing, learning to move a body alongside others learning to move their body, helped make imaginable, over and over again, what we could be and what we could do if, following Fred Moten and Édouard Glissant, we consent not to be a single being.