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Josh Wirz is an artist based in Glasgow. He creates installations and live events that centre on the creative use of live-streaming technology. Wirz's work continues the formal exploration of streaming technology that was central to the performance industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He unearths both the technology's creative potential and also its capacity to broaden access to live art. His work has been described as 'vulnerable yet heroic', 'a morbid curiosity', and 'an intense, slightly worrying, and very beautiful experience', Wirz's intention is to create work that is absurd, fragile and direct.

His work has been shown in the UK and abroad, most recently in FormaHQ, PINK Manchester, IAC Malmö, The University of Cambridge, Refractive Collective, Lewisham Art House and Gossamer Fog.

He is a co-director of Horsepower, an artist-run initiative in the East End of Glasgow and he is the founder and co-director of the Glasgow Clowning Jam a free meet up group for clowns in Glasgow. He is part of two long term collaborations the first with Swedish artist Axel Berger (2017 – present) and the second with University of Cambridge Sociologist Isabelle Higgins (2023 – present)