lily gold

as a maker and witch, in the name of dispelling supremacy culture, my work is compelled by the reality of our deep interconnectedness. turning to interoceptive curiosity to attune to forces of nature and the more than living, my practices straddle spiritual and material realms.

lily gold (she/they) is a white, queer, chronically ill, fourth-generation new yorker of the anti-zionist jewish diaspora. lily lives and works with / on / between the occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Lenape (and many more) where they were born.

lily is a choreographer, performer and visual artist, working interdisciplinarily in modes of movement, sound, painting, sculpture, and installation. her work has been presented by Danspace Project, First Street Gallery, MoMA/Judson Memorial Church, and Movement Research, among others. She has been an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, AUNTS, ZIL Cultural Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, CEC ArtsLink, and a spacegrant recipient at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. as a performer she has collaborated with devynn emory, Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others.

lily is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), organizer and grief-worker, listening to an unfolding path of somatic healing through an abolitionist and anti-oppression framework.