Bishop May Down (they/them) is an Arizona-raised, Glasgow-based performance maker and facilitator.
Conversations with Eve
ELECTION
BIO
Bishop’s conceptual work imagines
queer, post-human, and post-capitalist speculative futures.Their research-based art practice is committed to technology as a tool for liberation, and they often co-create with software, hardware and algorithm, working at the intersection of somatic practice and interactive technology. They are interested in the theatrical liveness of technology and the juxtaposed creative agency of human and system.
Bishop has been supported to make work by Tramway, Scottish Youth Theatre, and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Their post-human performance project
Conversations with Eve recently had it’s professional premiere at Feral Arts and Colette Sadler’s Present Futures, and they have presented in academic and cultural contexts about their reflexive experience working with AI.
Bishop’s solo performance work is produced by Hacks.
Bishop’s socially engaged work is informed by a five-year career in social care, and a facilitation practice developed with Scotland’s leading organisations
for young people.
They are passionate about co-creating with young people of all ages on socially and politically-engaged performance work that challenges structures of power and authority. They work with a responsive, play-centred and rights-based approach to make authentic and boundary-pushing performance and participatory experiences.
Their politically-engaged performance work ELECTION recently premiered at the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival and is beginning to tour.
Bishop works reguarly with Platform and Rumpus Room, and is a Lead Artist for S1-3 at the Citizen’s Theatre.