Photo by Neil Scott

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.

He is a co-director of Horsepower, an artist-run initiative in the East End of Glasgow and recently his work has been shown at PINK Manchester, IAC Malmö, The University of Cambridge, Refractive Collective, Lewisham Art House and Gossamer Fog.