Zarina Muhammad is an artist, educator and researcher whose practice is deeply entwined with a critical re-examination of oral histories, ethnographic literature and other historiographic accounts about Southeast Asia. Working at the intersections of performance, installation, text, ritual, sound, moving image and participatory practice, she is interested in the broader contexts of myth-making, haunted historiographies and role of the artist as “cultural ventriloquist” who lends polyphonic voices to data-driven systems and shapeshifting worlds. She has been working on a long-term interdisciplinary project on Southeast Asia’s provisional relationship to the otherworldly, spectrality, ritual magic and the immaterial against the dynamics of global modernity, the social production of rationality and environmental histories. In addition to presenting recent incarnations of her projects, performances and installations at Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), NTU Centre of Contemporary Art (Singapore), Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film (Singapore), T-Works (Singapore), Indonesia Contemporary Art Network (Indonesia), Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (Taiwan,) she has also presented her work and been involved in projects across Asia Pacific and Europe. She has been nominated as a finalist for several awards such as the President Young Talent, The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize and most recently The Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize.
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Pompano Beach, FL, USA
Manila, Philippines
Valsta, Sweden
Tallahassee, FL, United States
Miami, FL, United States
Chengdu, China
Clarksville, TN, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
New York, NY, USA
Kalamazoo, MI, United States
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Łódź, Poland
Hølen, Norway
Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Rosario, Argentina
Charleston, WV, United States
Mobile, AL, United States
McComb, MS, United States
Córdoba, Argentina
Seoul, South Korea
Porto, Portugal
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Wichita, KS, United States
San Antonio, TX, USA
Memphis, TN, United States
Nantes, France
Split, Croatia
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Tallinn, Estonia
Bowling Green, OH, United States
Aarhus, Denmark
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Yountville, CA, United States
Leipzig, Germany
Adelaide, Australia
Saint Paul, MN, United States
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Cape Town, South Africa
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Moscow, Russia
Rennes, France
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Prishtina, Kosovo
Ithaca, NY, United States
Lewisburg, PA, United States
Manchester, United Kingdom
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Budapest, Hungary
Gambier, OH, United States
New York, NY, USA