Zara Joan Miller

Zara Joan Miller is a British/Iranian artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her writing often situates itself in communal time(keeping) and space before taking root in the private body. BLUE MONDAY was published by JOAN Publishing in 2022 and her second book of poetry Year of the Dragon is forthcoming with TACO! Recent solo performances draw from ongoing research into abjection, lactation and personal ancestry. Her work has recently been presented at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Barbican Centre, Maximilian William Gallery, Les Atelier Claus, Horse Hospital, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and has appeared in motor dance journal, Fieldnotes journal, Hotel, Another Gaze and Worms Magazine. Blue Monday was also released as a duo LP with Ute Kanngießer on New York label Reading Group in 2023.

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Four Dances is an animated film made by Billy Steiger and Zara Joan Miller for TakuRoku. The film features four 'movement-drawings', or dances, each accompanied by piano recorded at Cafe OTO.

Billy Steiger & Zara Joan Miller – Four Dances

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"At the beginning of 2020, we started planning a community movement workshop at Cafe OTO's Project-Space. The first realisation of the series was due to take place in April 2020 in the form of a touch-based workshop led by Florence Peake. After a year of postponing due to Covid-19, CEREBELLUM has gradually turned into a collaboration between artists working across movement, poetry, sound and film. Drawing on the nature of the cerebellum (the part of the brain coordinating movement and balance), and the sound (bell) contained within it, a year-long thread has led to this coming together at Cafe OTO. A live stream re-exploring touch through sound: through hands playing with cameras; words and light; ceramics and concrete floor." Evie Ward / writing, voiceAmy Dickson / lighting, cameraZara Joan Miller / camera, camera directionFlorence Peake / movement, ceramics CEREBELLUM is a series for learning through exploration and experimentation in movement and sound where all bodies are welcome. The series is programmed collaboratively by Zara Joan Miller and Evie Ward. -- Live edit and mixing by James Dunn. Cover design by Oli Barrett.