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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May 5 | 4:30-5:40 PM ET | Artist talk
Join me for a virtual artist talk in Lehman College’s Queer Theater and Performance Speaker series. Info + link to join Zoom.
May 17 | 7-9 PM ET | Film screening
📍Target Brooklyn Community Garden, 931 Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY
Watch my film “Land/Escapes” in a screening presented by Neptune in June for Trans Art Fest. This evening of assemblage, performance, and narrative films in a community garden in Bed Stuy will include discussion with the filmmakers. Rain date: May 16! Full info.
July 17 | 7:30 PM ET | Performance
📍Lincoln Center, David Rubenstein Atrium
Catch the newest iteration of my multisensory and meditative and performance and sonic installation “asmr4apocalypse”. This free performance is part of Lincoln Center’s Summer in the City festival. Full info.
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