• 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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September 19 | 12-1 PM ET | Performing at Socrates Sculpture Park 

A day-long performance art festival, Party in the Park, is presented in collaboration with Franklin Furnace and Materials for the Arts. Curated by Francheska Alcántara and titled Performaxxing, the program will feature bold, body-based, durational performances that embrace a more-is-more aesthetic as both symptom and material of contemporary life. Performaxxing asks a single, unresolved question: what is revealed when we take the self all the way to the maximum, and what, then, is destroyed? I’ll be performing from 12-1pm, and full program is from 12-5pm. RSVP

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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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