• zavé dances in a back yard wearing a tumeric suit, white shirt, and pink glasses

About

 

zavé martohardjono is a queer, non-binary trans, Indonesian-American artist born in Canada and living in Brooklyn. Working across performance, film, installation, and poetry, zavé uses dance and ritual as primary languages across projects that engage in anti-colonial storytelling. With dreams of a more just future, they make work that contends with the political histories our bodies carry and prompts inquiry into how healing and political education can de-condition the assimilated body and reconjure liberatory memory. They have made documentaries, experimental films, and video works that have shown in festivals and galleries in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, and Indonesia. zavé is a 2022 Bessie-nominated performer whose choreographic and live performances have been presented in theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. including in New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and in Skopje, North Macedonia.
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asmr4apocalypse in something fierce festival

Flux IV 56-21 2nd St, Long Island City, NY 11101
Festival hours: November 22-23, 12-9 PM
Exhibition opening: November 22, 5-9pm
Performance: November 23, 5:30pm 

Check out the something fierce festival line up. My sound installation, asmr4apocalypse, will exhibit in the festival and be on view both days of the festival from 12-9pm. And on November 23 at 5:30pm, I will perform asmr4apocalypse with dance artist Stacy Lynn Smith and sound artist Mike Clemow. 

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If you are interested in chatting about my work, you can email me directly at zave [at] zavemartohardjono [dot] com.
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