BILLY JUMP

BILLY JUMP is a collective of artists exploring transdisciplinary performance practices. Founded in 2023 by Clio Van Aerde, Maja von Kriegstein and Karolina Rupp, it is based in Luxembourg, Berlin and The Hague. Billy Jump is a fictional alter ego of its co-founders.

It adopts ecofeminist and contextual methodologies, favouring collective and socially engaged approaches. It challenges artistic individualism by valuing collective creation under equitable conditions and reinvesting self-care as a social practice.

Billy Jump is inspired by the connective properties of water, its ubiquity and the tensions associated with it. We explore its domestic and urban use and the absurdity of certain practices, such as using drinking water for toilets.

In Berlin (2023), we studied the domestic qualities of water, while in residence at Bâtiment 4 (Esch-sur-Alzette, March 2025), we explored local water-related narratives and continued our research into Luxembourg's hydro-industrial heritage.

At the Bridderhaus, we will be developing ‘waterborn scores’ specific to the context and site, to be presented in workshops, an open studio and a publication.