Born 1992. Lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.
Education
2016 - 2021 PhD, School of Art, RMIT University
2011 - 2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons 1st class), School of Art, RMIT University
Awards and Residencies
2024 Bundanon Residency
2023 Minimax Residency, Chunky Move
2023 Police Point Residency
2023 Gun Powder Trading Post Residency, Wollumla
2022 Articulating Practice, Critical Path
2022 Villa Lena Art Foundation Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2021 Emerging Choreographers Program, Dancehouse
2021 Minimax Residency, Chunky Move
2016-2020 Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
2020 Dual Existence, Digital Residency Program
2018 c3 Art Space Development Residency
2017 Testing Grounds Residency
2015 Vice Chancellor's Award, RMIT University
Selected Performance & Exhibition History
Waves Are Disturbances
2023 performed by Al Jefimenko, Siobhan McKenna, Alex Dobson and Valentina Emerald, Know My Name, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
2023 performed by Al Jefimenko, Hayley Does, Alex Dobson and Valentina Emerald, How We Rise, Silver Leaf Art Box, Merricks, Mornington Peninsula
2022 performed by Haley Does and Al Jefimenko, Out of Bounds, Temperance Hall
2022 (film) Melbourne Fashion Festival's Independent Program, Centre for Projection Art, Collingwood Yards
2021 performed by Haley Does, Inertia, Dancehouse with support from Regional Arts Victoria
2020 performed by Zoë Bastin, Bloc Projects
2018 BLINDSIDE Regional Residency, Coastal VIC, NSW and QLD
Celestial
2023 performed by Haley Does, Al Jefimenko, Alexandra Dobson, Valentina Emerald, Iris Elgar, Ashlee Barton, Lui Eidelson, Paris Robinson, Rachel Mackie, Texas Nixon-Kain, Out of Bounds, Temperance Hall
2023 performed by Haley Does, Al Jefimenko, Alexandra Dobson, Valentina Emerald, Iris Elgar, Ashlee Barton, Lui Eidelson, Paris Robinson, Rachel Mackie, Texas Nixon-Kain, Bus Projects
2023 development, Dancehouse
2023 development, Critical Path, Sydney
2022 performed by Zoë Bastin, Villa Lena Art Fondazione, Tuscany, Italy
Enough - Commissioned by NETS Victoria for Conflated National Touring Exhibition
2024 Horsham Regional Gallery
2024 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and (forthcoming)
2023 Logan Art Gallery
2023 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2023 Deakin University Art Gallery
2022 School Of Art and Design Gallery Australian National University
That Which Was Once Familiar
2021 performed by Hayley Does, Alice Jefimenko, Ebony Muller, Julia Luby, Sue Hockey, Tizana Saunders and Zoë Bastin, presented by Dancehouse and Bus Projects for Midsumma Festival with support from Chunky Move, Melbourne City Council and Yarra City Arts
2021 (film) Virtue Signalling, BLINDSIDE
2021 (prints) commissioned by Art Box with Negative Press
2020 (film) Bus Video, Bus Projects
Volition
2023 performed by Zoë Bastin, Now Pieces, Dancehouse
2022 Sculpture - Platform for Shared Praxis, C A V E S Gallery
2018 performed by LJ Connolly-Hiatt, Jesse Gall and Sue Hockey, c3 Contemporary Art Space
Step One - Commissioned by Headspace Australia
2020 Visible online exhibition
Redemption for the Redeemer
2020 performed by Zoë Bastin, KINGS Artist Run
2019 performed by Zoë Bastin, Bus Projects
Unknowing
2019 Felt Space
2018 Movement and Art Series curated by John Nixon, MADA Gallery, Monash University
2018 Seventh Gallery
“Milk with one please”
2017 performed by Laura Albee Barton and Zoë Bastin, Treatment Flightlines, curated by David Cross and Cameron Bishop, Werribee Treatment Plant presented by Melbourne Water and Deakin University
Not Discrete
2016 SUBSTATION
Curatorial Projects & Public Programs
2023 Body Politics Season Three Hamish McIntosh, Brooke Stamp, Sarah Aiken, Alexander Powers, Jonathan Homsey and Luke George
2022 - 2024 Conflated National Touring Exhibition co-curated with Claire Watson NETS Victoria
2022 Just Breathe by Mig Dann, co-curated with Josephine Mead, Abbotsford Convent with support from Yarra City Arts
2022 Body Politics Season Two featuring Steven Rhall, Archie Barry, Jo Lloyd and Lilian Steiner, Bus Projects
2021 The Intimacy of Scrutiny: Mig Dann curated with Josephine Mead, Counihan Gallery
2019 Relics of Survival featuring Josephine Mead, Zoë Bastin, Kari Lee McInneny-McRae, Jazz Money, Bridget Griffiths, Katie Paine, Bus Projects
2018 Body Politics Season One featuring Shelley Lasica, Eugenia Lim, Bridie Lunney and Torie Nimmervoll, Bus Projects
2018 Presence co-curated with Brigid Hansen featuring Anna Horne, Archie Barry, Isabella Hone-Saunders, Holly Bates, Lou Fourie, BLINDSIDE
2017 Parasite Arts Laboratory presented by All Conference and West Space
Speaking Appearances
2023 - 2024 Conflated Curatorial Talks, Deakin University Art Gallery, Logan Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
2022 Queer Antidotes: Specificity in Theory and Practice, co-conyened with Hamish McIntosh featuring Melissa Ratliff, Frances Barrett, Phillip Adams, Sang Thai and Eden Swan AAANZ Annual Conference, University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
2022 Conflated #1: Zoë Bastin on conflation, bodies and transformative politics, Art Guide Australia Podcast
2022 (In)Corporeal Encounters, Emergent disorders of the (kin)aesthetic with Brooke Stamp, Amelia Wallin and Tiriki Onus, VCA Dance, University of Melbourne in partnership with Dancehouse
2022 Articulations Articulations with Devika Bilimoria, Eugenia Lim, Jodi Hanes and Scotty So hosted by Centre for Projection Art and Collingwood Yards for Melbourne Fashion Week
2021 TWWOF discussion with Dr Philipa Rothfield and Josephine Mead, Chunky Move
2020 Whose bodies are allowed to count and why, paper presented for Research Exchange, RMIT University
2018 ‘What Makes an Object Happy?’ paper presented at AAANZ Annual Conference, RMIT University
2018 The Estranged Body, Power of Immersion, Facilitated by Greg Seigworth, Free University of Berlin
2018 The why of Choreography, conversation with Shelley Lasica and Dr Sally Gardener, c3 Art Space
2017 Treatment; Flightlines, conversation with Prof. David Cross, Cameron Bishop, Fiona Hilary and Zoë Bastin, Research Exchange, RMIT University
2017 Critical Conversation Two: Spatial Discourse, facilitated by Katie Paine, First Site Gallery
2016 Rolling, Hanging, Tying; a continuous chain of events, paper presented at AAANZ Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra