Zara Joan Miller's work considers non-conforming bodies and their radical potentials.
Zara Joan Miller is a British/Iranian artist working across performance, poetry and film. Her work considers unconforming bodies and their radical potentials. Often playing with movement and sound as a way of reimagining a body’s rhythm, Zara's work aims to unravel boundaries between human and non-human nature. She has worked closely with brain injury survivors for several years and has made documentaries about artists at Submit to Love Studios (home to a group of artists living with a brain injury).
Screenings include: the Barbican Centre, Horse Hospital, Frieze No.9 Cork St., Cafe OTO, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film Festival. Her work has appeared in Motor Dance Journal, Fieldnotes Journal, Hotel Magazine, MAP, Another Gaze Journal and Worms Magazine. Zara is the author of poetry collection BLUE MONDAY (Joan Publishing, 2022).
Soft Rio
16mm converted to digital / 04:21 min / 2020
02:03 min excerpt
Soft Rio plays between erotic and erratic productions of layered movement and sound. Inspired by Audre Lorde's 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic", the film was shot on the stage of the Rio Cinema in London (once a striptease stage) featuring dancer Astrid Sweeney and sound by @xcrswx.
29 Hands
HD Video / 00:52 min / 2018
Screened on loop over the duration of the group exhibition 'differently various', Barbican Centre, 29 July - 6 August