Zoë Marden's research-focused works are concerned with Post human feminisms and where they overlap with the postcolonial. Her intimate performances play with the voice, activating soundscapes of desire and vulnerability.
Zoë Marden is an artist, filmmaker, and writer from Hong Kong, currently based in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art’s Moving Image MA, Marden works with performance, video, text, sound, sculpture and installation to create alternate worlds and speculative futures. Her research-focused works are concerned with Post human feminisms and where they overlap with the postcolonial. Her intimate performances play with the voice, activating soundscapes of desire and vulnerability. Recent projects have investigated the mythologies of witches and mermaids and their resonance within contemporary culture. She is part of the CAMPerVAN collective, active since 2016, a nomadic queer performance platform that can be deployed anywhere in the world to bring performance art, film screening, panel discussion & workshop into the public realm.
Marden’s recent solo exhibitions include Becoming Creature, Kong Art Space in partnership with Young Soy Gallery, Hong Kong (2023); and Marine Lovers...their fishy beginnings, V.O. Curations, London (2021). Selected recent group exhibitions and performances include: Living A Performance Artist's Life, MadeIn Museum, Shanghai (2023); Under Blue Shade, Roman Road, London (2023), Becoming The Wild Thing, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Becoming Creature, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London (2022); Born to make you happy, The Residence Gallery, London (2022); Queer to the Bank, Galleria Fonti, Naples (2021-2022); AORA:IV, Urbanism, London (2021), SomoS, Berlin (2020); and Stay LIVE at Home, Performistanbul (2020). Remember the Liquid Ground, Gasworks, London (2020), Grounded, Coastal Currents Arts Festival, 2020; Gaze to the UNKNOWN, Mimosa House, London, 2019; between Aeaea and the rocks of Scylla, The Horse Hospital, London, 2019; AMY/YMA, Serpentine Gallery, London, (2019) Unbothered + Moisturised, Eaton Workshop, Hong Kong, (2019), Equinox Light Cure, Exposed Arts, London, (2019)