FER BOYD
Fer Boyd is a writer and artist whose bodily theories and ecstatic narratives manifest in fiction, theory, sound and performance. Recent concepts include re-weaponising inevitability away from malign forces, queer regurgitation, consuming the beloved, near-death psychedelia, and the ouroboros of denial and prediction faced by humans.
They are the author of the short fiction collection 'Frot the World' (Canal, 2022), and the winner of The Space Crone Prize for speculative and science short fiction awarded by Silver Press and The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust (2023). Their winning story 'Sever Babylon' was published by Granta.
In 2018 they won the Prix International for Creative Critical Thinking for their writing in 'Skinned/Detouched' (Motto Books & Eastside Projects) an artist book by Alice Channer, nominated by Fatoş Üstek. Their corporeal manifesto 'A Theory for the Strange-Girl: Raw Red Text' was released by COUNTRY MUSIC in 2017, and has been read at club nights, festivals, on syllabuses and in reading groups, as well as metamorphosed into music and performed underwater.
Their sound works have been exhibited and screened widely including at
Liverpool Biennial, ICA, London and MACBA, Barcelona, and from 2017-2021 they were the co-organiser of SHELL LIKE, a dedicated space for deep listening. Recent performances with Madeleine Stack include 'The Altered State' (Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona, 2024), 'Guard the Delight' (CLUBS Art a la pista, Barcelona, 2023), 'Gilding the Rim' (Forma, London, 2023) & 'God’s Gloryhole' (SLUG, Leipzig, 2022). Along with Stack they are the co-editor of Canal, an occasional publication of poetics and politics.