Jack Ferver
Jack Ferver is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Their genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” (The New Yorker), inhabit while inciting psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of queerness, gender, and power struggles. Their work has been presented in New York City at New York Live Arts; New Museum; The Kitchen; Crossing the Line; Abrons Arts Center; Gibney Dance; Performance Space 122; Performa 11; Danspace Project; and Dixon Place. Domestically and internationally at Mass MoCA (MA); the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (NY); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (OR); the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA (ME); the Institute of Contemporary Art (MA); Fusebox Festival (TX); Diverse Works (TX); Temperance Hall (Australia); and Théâtre de Vanves (France). They have collaborated with their partner, the visual artist and filmmaker, Jeremy Jacob on performances and short films which draw from both artist’s research of cinema, queerness, memory, and AIDS. The duo’s most recent film Nowhere Apparent, was presented by AllArts in 2023. Ferver is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists. They teach at Bard College.
