• 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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Studies Project: Borderless Artist Long Table on Censorship

October 28 6:30-8:30pm | Movement Research 150 First Ave NYC
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Organized by UNDOXX, the Borderless Artist Long Table on Censorship will offer short presentations by advocates working to mitigate censorship in the arts and a long table discussion open to all attendees to share experiences with censorship and trade tools and tactics to continue making art amidst censorship. 

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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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