Jeremiah Day (1974, USA. Lives and works in Berlin) is an artist whose work employs photography, performance, text and installation to re-examine political conflicts and resistances, unfolding their subjective traces. Day studied under and often collaborates with postmodern dance pioneer Simone Forti, using her improvisational research-moving-talking method as an open-ended, unfolding, embodied form of questioning.
Day’s work represents a consistent investigation into art’s capacity for the civic, one materialised through subjective traces and a personal narrative style that grounds political thinking in tender experience. From 2014-2019, Day focused almost exclusively on live performance, producing a series of slide-show performances, often with musician Bart de Kroon, combining improvised movement and text with documentary investigations into military bases, anti-war organising efforts, historic and contemporary town-meeting forms. Day’s recent work focuses on structures of group improvisation in which political themes are explored through forms of production which themselves propose models of working and struggling together.
He graduated from the Art Department of the University of California, Los Angeles and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 2019-2020, Jeremiah Day holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Uniarts Helsinki’s Center for Educational Research and Academic Development in the Arts (CERADA), developing an investigation into the teaching and facilitating models that emerge from the intersection of dance and visual art.
Day has recently exhibited his work at Netwerk Aalst (Aalst), Villa Romana (Florence), Centre d'Art Le Lait (Albi), and Badische Kunstverein (Karlsruhe).