She employs video, soundscapes, text, live acts, and immersive installations to explore themes of ecology, (trans)gender embodiments, class, mythology, and the knowledge held in the land and the performing body. Her work, rooted in personal experiences, aims to create intimate, meditative spaces that connect diverse audiences beyond representation and political polarization. Niya has exhibited across the UK, including at Tate Britain, CCA Glasgow, and Site Gallery, and internationally at events such as Venice International Performance Week, Visioni Del Sud (Italy), the 5th and 8th Thessaloniki Biennale and the 2023 European Capital of Culture (Greece), and the 5th Moscow Biennale (Russia). She has received support from Arts Council England, the British Council, Jerwood Arts and the Cultural Institute Leeds among others. Niya holds an MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Sheffield and is currently pursuing a funded practice-as-research PhD at Kingston University’s School of Art in London on ecology and gender.
Intimate Threads is a simultaneous ritual across continents, emerging from an online collaboration between artists Bunny Cadag and Niya B. The artists follow the common threads that connect them across continents, particularly the pre-Christian mythology and cultural and spiritual traditions of the Philippines and Greece.
The performance acts as a metaphor for the possibility of a resilient identity in a fast-changing world of political extremes, climate uncertainty, species extinction, and the fetishization of nature. It is an investigation of serpent mythologies, fashion’s fascination with the animal world, and the contradictions inherent in imitating the skin pattern of a species that humans both fear and kill.
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