Jon Skygge

In Spirit Survive, Jon Skygge presents a live-streamed performance shaped by the recent loss of his father and the accelerating emotional pressures of contemporary life. Streaming from abroad while tending to matters related to his father’s estate, the work moves through grief, memory, exhaustion, and overstimulation, transforming personal mourning into a shared and unstable encounter across digital space.

Skygge’s practice often blurs autobiography, performance, and constructed identity, drawing from lived experience, art history, and social observation to challenge fixed expectations around contemporary art and selfhood. Moving between vulnerability and confrontation, his performances place emotional intensity in direct contact with public perception and participation.

For STROKE, Spirit Survive unfolds as a rapidly shifting meditation on loss, acceleration, and survival, where private experience becomes collective atmosphere through live transmission, repetition, and escalating tempo.

Photo & Bio courtesy of the artist.