About
Jessica works as an artist in the field of the performing arts and is also together with Karin Arnold a founding member of mercimax, a performance collective based in Zürich. She has recently been collaborating with the British artist and activist James Leadbitter aka the vacuum cleaner on the hope & fear project. After finishing her dance studies in London, she danced for various dance companies and most of her early pieces have been dance pieces too. Though her recent works and the forms and formats she chooses, have become more diverse during the past few years.
Jessica works with curiosity and has a special interest in the texture of relationships and in how we function as individuals in society. She is fascinated by the many possible aesthetics of exchange and sharing and so a lot of her works are being birthed by the longing for spaces where different "voices" (and bodies) can co-existe and co-create together. She regularly gives Workshops to professionals and non-professionals (different social groups) and teaches as guest tutor at the Hyperwerk in Basel (Institut for studies in Process Design) and is one of four artists who are part of the newly founded dramaturgy pool of Tanzhaus Zürich.
She is a house artist at Gessnerallee Zürich. For the season 20-22 she will be focusing on a research series called “Venus’ eyebrow – or the feral song’s call” – working on and around rituals of tenderness in different collaborations (and rituals of care).
Jessica received 2017 the Anerkennungspreis Tanz der Stadt Zürich. 2013 mercimax received the Anerkennungspreis Theater der Stadt Zürich for the Gegenüberstellungs-Series (Die Gegenüberstellung, 8:8 and coffee & prejudice)
picture Michelle Ettlin/Jessica Huber, as part of the "alternative rituals" series.
