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Since 2005 I have been working with performance as a central element of my practice and engaging with the international development of work in this field. Although I have produced work to be performed myself (often as a solo), increasingly, I work with others and shape projects around an interest in the way material or experience is shared performatively through social and personal relationships. Via this approach, I have put emphasis on performance as a cooperative tool to navigate and present ideas with groups of individuals. This is informed by looking to collaborative structures used in other performance disciplines such as experimental theatre, dance and musical composition.

I also self-publish TALKER, an interview zine about performance. Each issue features a long-form interview with a performance-maker and is produced as an extension of my own work with the aim of opening up discourse around live practices. I have produced 13 issues since 2016. These have featured interviews with the artists Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Dora García, Spalding Gray, Kathy Acker, Jo Fong, Paul Maheke, Clifford Owens, Gustav Metzger, Barby Asante, Miranda July and Agus Nur Amal PMTOH. I conduct the interviews myself (with the exception of one issue which publishes a transcript of an in-conversation event from 1987) and also design and distribute the publication. TALKER is stocked by retailers of artists’ printed matter in Auckland, Paris, New York, Marfa, Berlin, London, Glasgow, Vilnius and Lisbon. It is also held in the collections of the Tate and British Libraries.

A further extension of this research explores how performance’s social character could be used to rethink conventional approaches to assembling and recounting history. Working with texts, video fragments and choreographies, either composed myself or strategically appropriated from elsewhere, these works aim to propose a historiographic model that critically acknowledges doubt, and subjectivity as inevitable factors when making sense of past events that shape contemporary understanding. Sceptical of the idea of any ‘authentic’ account, I look to the fractured, incomplete and multilayered nature of mediations of information (via a web browser for example) as a tool to structure performances and inform the collage of their composition.

Solo Exhibitions and Performances:

2025

• A Flickering Space Where the Deed Dissolves, performance at Printed Matter, New York

• My Garden's Boundaries Are the Horizon, de Appel, Amsterdam

2024

•Talking Signs for Making, Performance at NewBridge Project, 缅北禁地 

2023 

•Tea Universe, ArtHouses, Whitely Bay

•Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz

•Vessels & Catastrophes. Mélange, Cologne

2022 

• How to see into the future (a beginner’s guide), Kunsthochschule Mainz

2019 

• Islanders The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

2018 

• Islanders (work in progress) Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed. (With Sophie Soobramanien, Jamie Hammill, Nellie Saunby)

2017

• Take the Credits! Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed.

• Festival is Sudden, Shipley Museum, Gateshead.

• Studio is Sudden, (ongoing programme) The Northern Charter, 缅北禁地 Upon Tyne.

2016

• World is Sudden Part II, TUSK Experimental Music Festival, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne

• Friend You Stand on Sacred Ground… This is Printing Office, International Print Biennale, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne

• World is Sudden Part I. Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick upon Tweed.

2015

• Giles Bailey (with Jeremiah Day), CCA Glasgow

2013

• I Bought a Little City, The Northern Charter, 缅北禁地. • I Bought a Little City, Leeds City Town Hall (as part of Recon Festival).

• A Performative Minute, Kunst Werke, Berlin.

• Bought a Little City, OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich.

2012

• The only thing I don't like about it is that it seems a little imaginative, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

• A Performance of Donald Barthelme's 'I Bought a Little City' in Marfa, TX, Presidio County Courthouse Marfa, Texas.

• Two Works, CAGE, New York.

• The Guests, At the Brittania Hotel for Seven Sites, Manchester.

2011

• Talker Catalogue, Van Horbourg, Basel.

• Tom/Lutz: Two Scenes in 1983, Leeds University, Leeds.

• The Nineteen Sixties, Unit 4, London.

2010

• Exit THE AZTEC, (for Achim Lengerer’s Scriptings), Fake or Feint, Berlin.

• 21st Century, Chisenhale Gallery, London.

2009

• Coming Soon, (with Jens Strandberg), Dais, Glasgow.

2006

• Sound Examples for Average Performance Experiments, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.

Group Exhibitions:

2023

• Vessels & Catastrophes, Mélange, Cologne

• Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz

2022

• Arcade Promenade, MiB, Bad Ems

2018

• Maquettes, The Block, London

• Akademie (Arbeitstitel), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

2017

• The Living Sculpture, Flat Time House, London

2016

• World is Sudden Part 2, The Old Police House, Gateshead (Curated with CIRCA Projects)

• Films From Nowhere, Leeds Film Festival

• World is Sudden Part 1, Berwick Film Festival, Berwick upon Tweed (Curated with CIRCA Projects)

• 2001, Leeds College of Art & Design

2015

• Notes From Technotopia, Gallery II, Bradford University

• Follies of Youth, The Hepworth, Wakefield

2014

• On the occasion of the festival, Kunsthalle Basel

• Het Mooiste, Public Project, Rotterdam

• Virtual Orangery, Beam, Wakefield

2013

• Time to Recollect, Stadthausgalerie (c/o Kunsthalle Münster)

• Artists Moving Image Festival, Tramway, Glasgow

• Upside Down, Museum Cultuur Strombeek, Gent

• Cally Calls, 309 Caledonian Road, London

• Things You Think in Order, Tenderpixel, London

• Contour - 6th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen.

• Home Theatre, Baro Galeria, Sao Paulo Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol.

• One Night Stand, Spike Island Bristol.

2012

• Performances at SUNDAY ART FAIR, London.

• Title, public project curated by Corinne Isabell Rinaldis, Zurich.

2011

• NEU/NOW, Tallinn.

• Text Me Faster, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels.

• Life of an Artist, Live in Your Head, Geneva.

• Sync(s) & Shred(s), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

• Serpentine Cinema: CINACT, Serpentine Gallery, London

Selected Writing and Bibliography:

2016-present

• TALKER issues 1 - 12, Self Published. Featuring: Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Spalding Gray & Kathy Acker, Dora Garciá, Paul Maheke, Jo Fong, Clifford Owens, Gustav Metzger, Barby Asante, Miranda July.

2021

• Fieldwork Marfa, Beaux-Arts Nantes/HEAD–Geneva/ Editions Jannink, Paris

2018

• Artists in the Archive – Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance, edited by Paul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye, Johanna Linsley, published by Routledge.

2017

• TALKER Issue #2, Interview with Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, self-published and launched at Tender Books, London and Good Press, Glasgow.

2016

• TALKER Issue #1, interview with Ian White, self-published and launched at the Showroom Gallery.

• This Massive Power, (with Serena Lee) published by Lightning Books.

2014

• Brief notes on a reading event in a desert, in Art Licks Weekend publication Being Without Walls 2012

• Ed Atkins and a phone call from a mentally ill friend and Peter Wächtler and boring performances in which artists read texts from sheets of paper in The Burning Sand Journal.

• Elementary Morality in the post, Arvo Leo Monograph, Western Front, Vancouver.

• Thinking Through the Eyes, KUB Arena Publication, Kunsthaus Bregenz.

• Record work - Accounts of writing, reading, moving and speaking performanceʼs documentary history in ‘Not a day without a line - Understanding artists' writings’ Manchester University Press.

2011

• Artist’s pages with Tris Vonna-Michell for OEI Magazine.

• Fat Chance Arthur, for DAUERWELLE edited by Jacob Blandy and Camilla Wills.

• Six Ws and the H, (with Louise Shelley) for Gnommero journal.

2010

• Sexual Encounter with a Dog for Vulnerability Liz Glynn and Caleb Waldorf ed. • The Lorem Ipsum, Charming the Snake of Reason for Enjoy Gallery NZ.

• Scriptings Issue 12 published by Achim Lengerer.

• No Call for Brilliant Colour, for Stealing One Thought out of the Other by Matthias Meyer.

• Exit THE AZTEC Version 2 (a choreography) for Gnommero journal.

2009

• Text for Swamp Thing by Alex Gross, Transmission Gallery.

• Digital or Visual Media

  • Bailey G. . Giles Bailey, 2016. Riso-printed publication.
  • Bailey G. . Notes from Technotopia Artistic visions of the tech-past/present/future exhibition at Gallery II Bradford University: Gallery II, 2015. Installation.
  • Bailey G. . Screened as an event at Harewood House: Pavilion, Leeds, 2014. Video.

• Exhibitions

  • Bailey G, Banner F, Lee T, Phan P, Ebert S, Ehmke J, Chenchanna L, Jakupovic L, Tarp A, Lassnig M. . 2023. Cologne, Germany: Mélange, 1.
  • Aghaalikhani M, Bailey G, Cornu C, Duchovny S, Eisele S, Glaubitz F, Hahlbrock D, Im y, La Roche M, Berentsen M, Lawrenz T, Mendoza C, Schmitt S, Trost L, Verstegen S, Erol Vert V, Wittbrodt E. . 2023. Koblenz: Ludwig Museum, 15.
  • Bailey G, La Roche M, Mendoza C, Unal D. . 2022. Bad Ems, Germany: Made in Balmoral, 15.
  • Bailey G, Varda A, Chaton A, Tan C, Pollard C, Bower D, Sabaliauskaite J, Jarman D, Luker E, Fail J, Wallers C, Quaintance M, Coleman K, Bentham K, Vevers L, Wijers L, Bothwell D, Philips A, Watson S, McBrearty R, Lee E, Grundy S, Green S, Bayliss S. . 2019. Warwick St, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne NE2 1BB: Star and Shadow Cinema.
  • Bailey G. . 2018. Düsseldorf, Germany: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1.
  • Becker P, Bailey G, Barham A, Brownrigg J, Christian T, Denman-Cleaver T, Elkin K, Fite-Wassilak C, Hebson N, Hendry K, Larkin F, Maier J, Macpherson S, McCreadie A, McCreadie L, McStravick C, Pedraglio F, Perez-Cordova T, Phillips A, Power C, Reynolds A, Scott-Fullerton C, Soobramanien N, Stiefel A, Vanbesien R, Williams L. . 2017. Antwerp, Belgium: M_HKA, 50+.
  • Bailey G, Toop D. . 2017. London: Flat Time House, 1.
  • AbuHamdan S, Bailey G. . 2016. Leeds, UK: Leeds College of Art and Design, 1.
  • Bailey G. . 2015. Glasgow, UK: CCA, 1.
  • Bailey G. . 2015. Wakefield, UK: The Calder – Hepworth Wakefield, 1.
  • Bailey G. . 2015. Glasgow, UK: Centre for Contemporary Art, 2.
  • Bailey G. . 2011. Basel, Switzerland: Van Horbourg - Art in Space, 4.

• Performances

  • Bailey G. . 2025. New York: Printed Matter, 1 hour.
  • Bailey G. . 2023. Whitley Bay: 47 Victoria Avenue, 25 minutes.
  • Bailey G, Hammill J, Saunby E, Soobramanien S, Reid H, Denton G, Pollard C. . 2019. Star & Shadow Cinema Co-op, Warwick St, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, NE2 1BB: Star and Shadow Cinema, 30 minutes.
  • Bailey G. . 2018. Whitley Bay: Art Houses.
  • Bailey G, Scott J. Take the Credits!. 2017. Berwick Upon Tweed: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. In Preparation.
  • Bailey G, Wright E, Bayliss S, Green S, Elkin K, McBrearty R. . 2016. Berwick Upon Tweed: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.
  • Bailey G, Kenchington S, Gray K, Bayliss S, Green S, Donegan C, Elkin K, Ruilova A. . 2016. Gateshead: The Old Police House.
  • Bailey G. . 2015. London, UK: Flat Time House, 10 minutes.