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Zander Porter (ザンダー・ポーター) is a US-American cyborg-artist based primarily in Berlin. Working between liveness and onlineness, ze interpolates (dis)identification and (dis)embodiment as phenomenological inquiries between surface, soma, portal, and psyche. Zander’s practices negotiate attention, gender, affect, subjectivity, and role play through an approach to internet semiotics, hormonal technologies, social ceremonies, and surveillance paradigms with a mixture of curiosity, reverence, and skepticism. Ze articulates byproducts (performativities) of this negotiation as (technogenetic) matrices of queerer relationality.
Zander has been a core member of XenoEntities Network (XEN), a platform for discussion and experimentation focusing on intersections of queer, gender, and feminist studies with digital technologies. Holding a BA in Art Studio (with additional coursework in Computer Science and Performance Studies) from Wesleyan University and an MA in Choreography from DAS Graduate School – Amsterdam University of the Arts, ze has worked or participated in residencies at Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art (New York), Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin), ACUD MACHT NEU (Berlin), the Saison Foundation (Tokyo), National Institute for Space Research (São José dos Campos), Leonardo@Djerassi (Woodside), alongside participation in various exhibition contexts internationally.
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education
2021-2023 // Choreography (MA) // DAS Graduate School – ATD – AHK // Amsterdam, NL
2017 // German Language // UCLA // Los Angeles, US
2013-2017 // Art Studio (BA) // Wesleyan University // Middletown, US
2015 // Game Development // DIS // Copenhagen, DK
2009-2013 // College-preparatory // Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences // Santa Monica, US
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solo/duo
2023 // los Zeros // Pulpería Mutuálica // Buenos Aires, AR
2023 // 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} // Academie voor Theater en Dans // Amsterdam, NL
2022 // 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} // Uferstudios für zeitgenössischen Tanz // Berlin, DE
2022 // [satellitic] 3M0T1NG // Laboratório de Integração e Testes (INPE) // São José dos Campos, BR
2021 // Emoji-bot [Du{think}BTTR_off_alleine?] // ACUD Galerie // Berlin, DE
2020 // Alien Intimacy // Studio ALTA // Prague, CZ
2020 // The Berlin Sessions: ClumpTV // KW Institute for Contemporary Art // Berlin, DE
2020 // Alien Intimacy // 289E // Ho Chi Minh City, VN
2020 // the Zero // Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM // Berlin, DE
2017 // I’m your pixelpleasure // Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery // Middletown, US
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group
2024 // Fuori Visioni // Festival Arte Contemporenea // Piacenza, IT
2024 // SIRENA // #DUMPHAUS // Tokyo, JP
2023 // Metatopia // Estúdio Aisthesis // São Paulo, BR
2023 // ANI[MA] // A sông // Da Nang, VN
2023 // Sensory Disconnection // nota.space // Hamburg, DE
2023 // Kinētechós // Morphrame // Naples, IT
2023 // S o r o - s o r O #3 // Mariko HORI // Amsterdam, NL
2023 // Server of Flesh // Litote // Montreal, CA
2023 // Dust to Dust // Zabludowicz Collection // London, GB
2022 // OPENING THE PILL // MUSEION // Bolzano, IT
2022 // glitching code // one gee in fog // Geneva, CH
2022 // Studio Showings 2022 // Academie voor Theater en Dans // Amsterdam, NL
2022 // Y: NORMAL BODIES // Divadlo X10 // Prague, CZ
2022 // Festival Freevoli // Collectif tout pour rien // Paris, FR
2022 // Changwon National University Intl. Exchange // Inside Gallery // Changwon, KR
2022 // Surveillance Society. A State of Control // Millepiani // Rome, IT
2021 // Momentum Gallery 05: Traces of the Future // AP KunstArt Fund // Kraków, PL
2021 // Restless Waiting // IAVPOA // Kaunas, LT
2021 // Puntomov Fest // Autonomous University of Mexico State // Toluca, MX
2021 // studio 2.06 // DAS Choreography + the wrong biennale // Amsterdam, NL
2021 // Changwon National University Intl. Exchange // Cho Hyun-wook Art Hall // Changwon, KR
2021 // Ejercicios de apertura // Perfolink // Santiago, CL
2021 // ESSENCE/ABSENCE // New Art City // Milan, IT
2021 // it’s so simple yet nobody does it // Đurđija Vučinić // Belgrade, RS
2021 // Encounters with Incomprehension // Are.na // Portland, US
2021 // Borderless // Reconnect Festival // Tehran, IR
2021 // Tender Hotel // Grand re Union // Warsaw, PL
2020 // Melbourne Fringe Festival // Dancehouse // Melbourne, AU
2020 // PROXY // Cultural Center of Spain // San José, CR
2020 // What Remains // DFBRL8R // Chicago, US
2020 // Presentness // Estación Terrena // Bogotá, CO
2019 // Natascha Sadr Haghighian presents Bad Muskau // Muskauer Straße // Berlin, DE
2019 // Revis(ualis)ing Intersectionality // Humboldt Univ. + DeZIM-Institut // Berlin, DE
2019 // What Do We Do Now? // Casino Notabile // Rabat, MT
2019 // bitch2bitch // kit ket // Lisbon, PT
2019 // Bring back reality, bring it back to you and me // AKC Medika // Zagreb, HR
2019 // Digital Analogous // Spazio Tondelli // Riccione, IT
2019 // Unsettling Time // Vanderbilt University // Nashville, US
2019 // User Preferences // Maria Cynkier // London, GB
2019 // #nfcdab // Recepcja // Wrocław, PL
2019 // This is Not a Map // The Virtual Salon // Jerusalem, IL
2019 // Clump International: Night of the Living Clump // TV // Berlin, DE
2019 // Fierce Festival // Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery // Birmingham, GB
2019 // Futures of Sexuality // TIFA Working Studios // Pune, IN
2019 // Fuchsbau Festival // Lehrte // Hanover, DE
2019 // 12 // Online Performance Art Festival // Belgrade, RS
2019 // Performing Arts Festival Berlin // Alte Münze // Berlin, DE
2019 // Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion // Human Resources // Los Angeles, US
2019 // Psychedelic is the New Childhood // Pugnant Film Series // Athens, GR
2019 // Trashxploitation Festival // Glory Hole 003 // Paris, FR
2019 // Art, Not Apart // National Film & Sound Archive of Australia // Canberra, AU
2019 // Queer B-Cademy: B-ing is B-lieving // Kampnagel // Hamburg, DE
2019 // Creating Empathy // transmediale + Spektrum // Berlin, DE
2019 // Affect/Effect: Performance Prosthesis // Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM // Berlin, DE
2018 // Dirty Debüt #3-snickers // Sophiensæle // Berlin, DE
2018 // Porsche SCOPES // Julia Stoschek Collection + Secret Garden Berlin // Berlin, DE
2018 // Welt ohne Außen // Gropius Bau // Berlin, DE
2018 // Olympia Bukkakis presents Metamorphosis/Liberation II // LUDWIG // Berlin, DE
2018 // Personae – Behavior and Authenticity // 48 Stunden Neukölln // Berlin, DE
2018 // Olympia Bukkakis presents Fancy: Hope // LUDWIG // Berlin, DE
2018 // (A) Dark Room Space // Agora + ROOM E-10 27 // Berlin, DE
2018 // queer_tech_camp: Strategies in Techno-performance // Spektrum // Berlin, DE
2017 // Rabbit Hole presents: Y2K+18: the millennium bug reaches majority // Anjos70 // Lisbon, PT
2017 // Weirdo Night! with Dynasty Handbag // Zebulon // Los Angeles, US
2017 // TransFest // The Byre Theatre // St. Andrews, GB
2017 // Out There // Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 // Los Angeles, US
2017 // Thesis Art Exhibition // Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery // Middletown, US
2017 // Metamorphoses // Davison Art Center // Middletown, US
2016 // Kembra Pfahler presents Incarnata Social Club // Berlin // New York City, US
2015 // CHANA//刹那 // Eclectic Society // Middletown, US
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talking/workshop
2023 // “apparat/us: 감정을 표현하는 {3M0T1NG}” // SPACE SEORO // Seoul, KR
2023 // “Workshop: Zander Porter” // Zabludowicz Collection // London, GB
2022 // “SNDO-DAS Lab 2022” // School for New Dance Development // Amsterdam, NL
2022 // “Saison Artist-in-Residence Open Group Session” // The Saison Foundation // Tokyo, JP
2022 // “Emoting[webcam*webcam](^z)” // The Saison Foundation // Tokyo, JP
2021 // “SNDO-DAS Lab 2021” // School for New Dance Development // Amsterdam, NL
2021 // “Visit to Emoji-bot by Zander Porter at ACUD Galerie” // Berlin Art Institute // Berlin, DE
2020 // “Dance (Lens) – Dance Films with Artist Q&As” // Dancehouse // Melbourne, AU
2020 // “Codpiece: Sandra Johnston & Zander Porter” // University of Warwick // Coventry, GB
2020 // “Workshop with James Batchelor / Alien Intimacy” // Bangkok Dance Academy // Bangkok, TH
2019 // “Rethinking Ecological Practices” // SPACE10 // Copenhagen, DK
2019 // “27 Thoughts on Climate Change and Technology” // Fuchsbau Festival // Hanover, DE
2019 // “Politics of Love #5: Accountability / Verantwortung” // Sophiensæle // Berlin, DE
2019 // “Queer Rave-Time: DJ Sezzo & Brooke Powers” // Hares & Hyenas // Melbourne, AU
2019 // “Cinema Conversación LGBTQ* – Zander Porter” // SomoS // Berlin, DE
2019 // “Do you see me?” // University of the Arts Bremen // Bremen, DE
2018 // “Future Memories” // University of Cologne // Cologne, DE
2018 // “Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” // Gropius Bau // Berlin, DE
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writing
2023 // “Transindividual Equations/Matrices: Schizoid Therapeutics” // Performance Philosophy
2022 // “queer ecophenomenology ︎︎︎ aesthetics/cuteness {::} zap me into it” // Ashtray - Städelschule
2021 // “An Evening-length Performance: A Provocateur’s Perspective” // Magazin im August
2020 // “the Zero TreeMap” // This Container
2017 // “[ A conversation* with Gregg Bordowitz ]” // tir journal
2017 // “I-Be Area / Eye-Was Camera: Dancing Identities and Other Edits” // Intercut
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award + residency
2024 // Leonardo@Djerassi // Woodside, CA
2023 // Rechercheförderung - Fonds Darstellende Künste // Berlin, DE
2023 // Aart Janszen Fonds // Amsterdam, NL
2022 // Rechercheförderung - Fonds Darstellende Künste // Berlin, DE
2022 // NPN-STEPPING OUT // Munich, DE
2022 // tep39 // Prague, CZ
2022 // SACi-E / National Institute for Space Research (INPE) // São José dos Campos, BR
2022 // AHK Internationalisation Fund // Amsterdam, NL
2022 // DAS Research Development Fund // Amsterdam, NL
2021 // Saison Foundation Online Research Residency // Tokyo, JP
2021 // DIS-TANZ-SOLO // Berlin, DE
2021 // ACUD MACHT NEU // Berlin, DE
2020 // Up People’s Choice Award Melbourne Fringe // Melbourne, AU
2020 // Atelierhaus Prenzlauer Promenade // Berlin, DE
2020 // Trauma Bar und Kino Movement Residency // Berlin, DE
2020 // Cité internationale des arts // Paris, FR
2019 // Akademie Schloss Solitude Web Residencies Shortlist // Stuttgart, DE
2018 // Dirty Debüt // Berlin, DE
2017 // Phi Beta Kappa // Middletown, US
2017 // High Honors (Wesleyan University) // Middletown, US
2017 // Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Prize // Middletown, US
2013 // Cum Laude (Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences) // Santa Monica, US
2008 // Virtual Magic Kingdom Best Guest Room // Lake Buena Vista, US
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bibliog.
2023 // “thinking with 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} by Zander Porter” // Marta Crespo Campos
2023 // “Six London exhibitions we can’t wait to see in July 2023” // Time Out
2023 // THE LITTLE PANIK: Yooha Cheon // School for New Dance Development
2023 // A Choice Among Others // DAS Choreography
2023 // Imagining Futures of Experimental Media // Pleasure Dome
2023 // “Emoting and Networking in 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng}” // Michael Amico
2022 // “Zander Porter: 3M0T1NG{/n3tw0rk1ng} / Uferstudios” // Tanzforum Berlin
2022 // “Zander Porter: ADHD Penetration #OpeningThePill” // MUSEION
2022 // “OPENING THE PILL. A performative symposium” // MUSEION
2022 // “Opening the Pill” // Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung
2022 // “glitching code” // KubaParis
2022 // “-K-i-n-g-d-o-m- of the Ill” // e-flux
2022 // “«Glitching Code» at one gee in fog” // Contemporary Art Switzerland
2022 // “Online Research Residency 2022” // The Saison Foundation
2022 // “Space art and culture in Brazil: Three years of activities at INPE (1/2)” // Makery.info
2022 // TikTok // Liina Magnea
2022 // “Y: NORMAL BODIES” // Artyčok TV
2022 // Queer is Not a Manifesto: Raoni Muzho Saleh // OCCII
2022 // NEW TECHNIQUES IV: Juan Pablo Cámara // Sophiensæle + Centre Français de Berlin
2022 // Forough Fami: The Waiting Room // DAS Graduate School
2022 // “Ciborgue Somático - Visita de Zander no INPE” // Antenna Rush
2022 // “SACi-E/INPE 3rd Artist-in-Residence Zander Porter” // Subjectivity, Art, Space-Sciences
2022 // Revisualising Intersectionality: Conversations // Tiara Roxanne
2022 // “DAS Choreography - students” // Academie voor Theater en Dans Amsterdam
2021 // “I’m your pixelpleasure | Zander Porter” // Digital America
2021 // Juan Pablo Cámara: The Many Dramas of J. Diablo // T.E.N.T.
2021 // “Termine: Emoji-bot” // KubaParis
2021 // “THE WEEK Aug. 2-8, 2021” // Berlin Art Link
2021 // James Batchelor: An Evening-legnth Performance // Tanz im August
2021 // “Exhibitions - INDEX Berlin” // INDEX Berlin
2021 // Kristian Vistrup Madsen: Doing Time, “ALEX” // Mousse Magazine
2020 // “Welcome to Heaven: I’m your pixelpleasure [Ich bin ihr Pixel-Vernügen]” // nextmuseum.io
2020 // James Batchelor: An Evening-length Performance // Bruges Royal City Theatre
2020 // Jeremy Wade: Oh Lovely Appearance of Death // HAU Hebbel am Ufer
2020 // “Alien Intimacy – Doteky z jiného vesmíru” // Taneční aktuality
2020 // “Hunting for ghosts in the algorithms | Letta Shtohryn” // MaltaToday
2020 // Various Artists – Transcendental Movements Vol. 1 // IDO Records
2020 // “Fierce Festival 2019 the Movie” // Fierce Festival TV
2019 // “Exploring sexuality and identity through art” // STIRworld
2019 // “Comment le « collectif » change l’art d’aujourd’hui” // Le Quotidien de l’Art
2019 // “Let the Sunshine In” // The Indian Express
2019 // Jeremy Wade: Technologies of Impossible Repair // Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2019 // Britta Thie: Favorites // Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien
2019 // The Parliament of Bodies: Jeremy Wade // Bergen Assembly
2019 // HIAP Open Studios: Andrey Bogush // Helsinki International Artist Programme
2019 // “ADHD Penetration [trailer]” // Contemporary Cruising
2019 // Max Göran: TRUE FOX/when foxes die they go wild wild west // Berlin University of the Arts
2019 // Maciej Sado: Anydog cont. // STUDIO teatrgaleria
2019 // “XenoEntities Network, Collective practice towards the digital future” // CLOT Magazine
2019 // “Sophiensæle Panel on Diversifying Berlin’s Art Scene” // KALTBLUT Magazine
2019 // Atelierstipendium: Jessyca R. Hauser // BKA Residency Tokyo
2019 // “Delegate Program” // Dance Massive
2018 // James Batchelor: Cosmic Ballroom // CSC Bassano del Grappa
2018 // Ewa Dziarnowska: pearls before swine // PS120
2018 // “Or Food That is Not for Thought” // Max Wallenhorst
2018 // Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst: Chain Opera // The New Infinity – New art for planetariums
2018 // Reza Mirabi: PURPOSE next // Agora
2018 // Kristian Vistrup Madsen: “Why I Can’t Write Fiction” // Biskops Arnö Nordens
2018 // Singularity (And Ready to Mingle) // Olympia Bukkakis
2018 // Prototypes // Doireann O’Malley
2018 // Reza Mirabi + Roland Walter: Immersive Mediation // Sophiensæle
2017 // Sasha Rudensky: Acts and Illusions // Davison Art Center
2017 // “Tawksick (feat. Z)” // umami goddess™
2017 // “Digital Collections” // Wesleyan University
2017 // “I’m your pixelpleasure University Honors Nomination” // Greg Goldberg
2017 // Triple Cone Magazine // Emily Monforte & Alex Pabarcius
2017 // “Week 1 of Art Theses Experiments with Concrete, Light, and Scent” // The Wesleyan Argus
2016 // This is Intentional // elle hong & Keren Alshanetsky
2015 // Limanora // Zach Carlson
2014 // Analog // Kaitlin Chan
2008 // “VMK Club 33 Parties – Prediction & Freshy” // Cherishina
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