about

Ruby Donohoe (she/her/they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist working with choreography as a mode of critical inquiry into the body’s political, sensory, and relational capacities. Ruby’s practice spans live performance, participatory frameworks, video, and installation to examine how bodies negotiate visibility, coherence, and control. 

Informed by living with epilepsy, Ruby’s work foregrounds instability as a generative methodology- where interruption, hesitation, and disorientation become tools for rethinking embodiment. Attentive to expanded thresholds between animate and inanimate, public and private, Ruby’s works propose estrangement as an ethics of attention and a strategy for queering perception, relation, and form.

Ruby’s recent works engage with dissolution, soft architectures, and speculative forms to explore the intelligence of instability. By allowing structures to melt, slip, or drift between definitions, Ruby examines how disappearance alters attention and how ephemeral processes can illuminate narratives otherwise marginalised or obscured. Their works are interested in how archives - bodily, material, institutional- are shaped as much by what they omit as what they hold, and how estrangement might serve as an ethic for encountering differently. 

Informed by their curatorial practice as founding director of IN | artist run initiative at The Old Lock Up in Cotton Tree,  Ruby’s artistic research explores how time-based and ephemeral practices can reshape understandings of history, place, and community; how instability can surface suppressed or overlooked narratives; and how institutions- like bodies- might soften, unmake, or become otherwise.

Based on unceded Kabi Kabi Country.