zavé martohardjono is a queer, trans, Indonesian-American artist. Working across dance, performance, film, installation, and poetry, zavé uses dance and ritual as primary languages across projects that engage in anti-colonial storytelling. Born in Tiohtià:ke territory (Montréal, CA) in 1984, zavé grew up in the lands of the Cayuga (Ithaca, NY), Massachusett (Boston, MA), and Munsee Lenape (Queens, NY). They have lived in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) since 2006. zavé studied Political Economy at Brown University before heading to CUNY City College to study documentary filmmaking. Since 2007, they have made documentaries, experimental films, and video works that have shown in festivals and galleries in the U.S., Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, and Indonesia. The most recent film they made in collaboration with J Dellecave, Julia Liu, and Aviva Jaye, “Land/Escapes”, received an Honorable Mention at the Vienna International Film Awards 2023. zavé is a 2022 Bessie-nominated performer whose choreographic and live performances have been presented in theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. including in New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and in Skopje, North Macedonia. Zavé’s dance works, experimental multimedia-rich performances, and writing address and subvert political histories with an embodied aim: to de-condition the body and reconjure liberatory memory. zavé has been written about in the New York Times, BOMB Magazine, CultureBot, Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic.