Jordan Deal (they/them, Philadelphia, PA, USA) works in the intersections of performance, sound, installation, film, and text where the body becomes both instrument, interruption, and subterranean conduit. Channeling what they call chaos force—a method of embodied subversion—Deal unravels the mythologies, socio-political systems, and anomalies that choreograph public and private life. Through a unique blend of avant-theatrical interventions, process-based research, and sonic compositions, Deal renders the spaces between hauntings, contradictions, and the unruly poetics of slickness.
They have presented work internationally across venues such as Cafe OTO, CTM Festival, Performing Arts Forum France, Judson Memorial Church, the Center for Performance Research, Zé dos Bois Galeria, and Icebox Project Space Philadelphia. They have exhibited sculptural and sonic installations at Fleisher-Ollman gallery, Vox Populi, Grizzly Grizzly, and ACUD, amongst others. As a 2024 MAP Fund grantee, 2023–24 Artistic Fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and a 2022 research fellow at the Amant Foundation, Deal continues their exploration of chaos force as a tool for artistic, philosophical, and social intervention.
