ZAZIE STEVENS (1988, NL)
is an artist, writer, and the director (EIC) of DAISYWORLD magazine (2020)
Besides her work for DAISYWORLD magazine Zazie Stevens works as a commissioned writer, editor, photographer and creative director in the arts.
Zazie Stevens received her Master of Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in 2016 and lives and works in Amsterdam (NL)
COMING UP
live performance with Natalja Romine (Yanling)
@Silent Green with EOS RADIO
Berlin 20-23 April 2023
collaboration with Vibeke Mascini
(current resident Rijksakademie beeldende kunsten)
The World is a Verb - a wearable publication
a text on metamorphosis and transformation
DAISYWORLD magazine issue #6 launches late summer 2023
EDUCATION
MFA Master of Fine Arts
Sandberg Institute Amsterdam
2014 - 2016 Amsterdam (NL)
BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
2008 - 2011 Utrecht (NL)
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE
@daisyworldmag is a biannual independent artist project
concerned with questioning anthropocentrism;
a radical and sensual publication at the intersection of
contemporary art, language & ecocriticism.
available HERE and at select stockists:
San Serriffe Amsterdam, NL
De Appel Amsterdam, NL
Atheneaum Amsterdam, NL
Rile books Brussels, BE
Boooooks Antwerp, BE
Doyoureadme Berlin, DE
Tender books London, UK
Palais de Tokyo Paris, FR
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE ISSUE #5
#ecotica DANGEROUS DEPTHS
launch @ San Serriffe Amsterdam 26 November 2022
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE ISSUE #4
#ecotica SILENT SPRING
online launch 21 April 2022
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE ISSUE #3
#ecotica ROT, LANGUAGE & A STRAY BUTTERFLY
launch @ San Serriffe Amsterdam 28 November 2021
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE ISSUE #2
#ecotica NO WINTER LASTS FOREVER, NO SPRING SKIPS ITS TURN
launch @ San Serriffe Amsterdam 11 April 2021
DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE ISSUE #1
#ecotica SUMMER REFLECTIONS
launch @ San Serriffe Amsterdam 27 September 2020
RESIDENCIES / ADDITIONAL STUDIES
PERDU Writing Program
with Hannah van Binsbergen
2019 - 2020 Amsterdam (NL)
Attention and insight meditation studies
& contemplative arts @ Shambhala International
2010 - ∞ Shambhala Center Amsterdam (NL)
& Dechen Chöling Limoges (FR)
Beauty and Truth (and the Good) prof. dr. M. Martijn,
MA Course History of Philosophy, VU
2016 Amsterdam (NL)
TAAK Summer School residency
with Cooper Union NYC
2015 Marfa, TX (USA)
Amsterdam AWG writing program
English Literature Department UvA
2015 Amsterdam (NL)
Motto Distribution
2011 - 2012 Berlin (DE)
CASCO office for design & theory
2010 - 2011 Utrecht (NL)
EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS
PERDU
Publication presentation and reading
Presenting participants writing program 2019-2020
24 June 2020, Amsterdam (NL)
SEASONAL SALON
Seasonal dinner series with Juliette Lizotte
On gathering unconventional and sensory knowledge
winter edition January 19
spring, summer & fall edition dates TBA
2020 Amsterdam (NL)
Salon Hang - Group Show
“Composition for Perfume 001” video, 04:47 min
Lente Kabinet
Cultural Programcurated by Femke Dekker
“Precious Time” 30 min. Sound-piece
26 May 2019,
Amsterdam (NL)
ABLAZE - Duo exhibition with Robin Alexander Wasch
“Fire in the Heart, Smoke into the Head
”video, photographs, script excerpts & scent
30 November - 3 December 2018, 3rd Floor,
Berlin (DE)
Intimacy in the US - Group Show
letter & on-site text installation
Galerie de Schans 27 - 29 October 2017
Amsterdam (NL)
COMING TO YOUR SENSES
Solo Exhibition
17 - 24 June 2016
Kunstverein, Amsterdam (NL)
Checkpoint to the Stars - TAAK
“Texas Forever / Cosmic Harmony”
Group showon-site installation, letters, photographs, and objects
July 2015, The Paisano Hotel
Marfa, Texas (USA)
CHASING WATERFALLS - Solo exhibition
photographs on silk a.o., on-site installation
16 - 31 January 2013
The Parlor Gallery,
Berlin (DE)
Many Shades of Blue,
Title and text, commissioned by Nikola Knezevic
“City Body Bruised Like a Peach”,
18 - 21 June 2015, School of Missing Studies,
Aldo van Eyck Burgerweeshuis,
Amsterdam (NL)
COVERAGE
- Collaborative ambient poetry work with Natalja Romine (Yanling) for EOS RADIO
Zazie Stevens (artist & director (EIC) of DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE) provided fragments of lyrical research used for the latest edition of DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE titled identically "silent spring", provoked by the enduring influence of the work of Rachel Carson.
LIVE online 27 may 2022 &
LIVE on-site @KUNSTHALLE PORTIKUS Frankfurt 6 January 2023, in the context of the exhibition of Ximena Garrido-Lecca.
LISTEN HERE https://eosradio.de/archive/yanling-zazie-stevens
- "Tender Tendrils" live reading on the occasion of Helena Grande's "Speech Choke",
organized by Corridor Project Space hosted by Goleb Amsterdam, together with Nadia de Vries
- PRECIOUS TIME AT NO BOUNDS RADIO
Literary initiative @noboundsradio broadcasted Zazie Stevens' "Precious Time", a 30 min meditative soundpiece (headphones highly recommended).
“The idea was to melt together sensory and mental experiences into one layer. They co-exist but are inevitably divided into external and internal. The sensory experience of a scent or a sound entering your body as you turn a corner irl, transporting you back to a different moment, transporting you to an idea, sparking a snakelike chain of thought as your legs continue to walk. The constant shifting between being present and drifting away, between abiding in the body or in the mind. To what extent do we control this dance? Especially the mind in love knows how to use the body as a hyper-sensory travel device. I felt the desire to go along with that for a while and to capture it.” A 30 min guided walk through NYC and the mind in love, meditating on plants, the heart, and dizziness while reading Barthes in the dark. from 3:42:10
https://m.mixcloud.com/noboundsradio/no-bounds-weds-24th-june-2020/
- Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee RADIO co-hosting with Femke Dekker,
Willem de Ridder’s The Walk as part of 2 Unlimited
De Appel - art center for contemporary art
August 2018 Amsterdam (NL)
- FIRE INTO THE HEART SMOKE INTO THE HEAD AT PUB RADIO
Interview and reading "Fire into the Heart, Smoke into the Head"
A climate disaster love story by Zazie Stevens at PUB RADIO, from approx. 27:00 - 47:00
https://pub.sandberg.nl/globalwarmup/
- INTERVIEW LENTE KABINET AT RED LIGHT RADIO
interview Femke Dekker on WIP for Lente Kabinet at Redlight Radio from approx 44:00 min
https://www.mixcloud.com/RedLightRadio/lente-kabinet-radio-w-kamma-questions-collective-zazie-stevens-red-light-radio-05-08-2019/
- METROPOLIS M SANDBERG GRADUATION SHOWS
Metrolopolis M review of the Sandberg Graduation Shows
Zazie Stevens department of Fine Art at Kunstverein Amsterdam
https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/24164_sandberg_festival_of_choices
"... by highlighting both clarity and obscurations Zazie Stevens investigates perception. Through her poetic practice of documenting she looks at the knowledge of image, language, the sensory and their ecologies - resulting in intimate documents, objects and meetings. In her thesis sits a key phrase; "How to create contemplative work that is not austere. How to strip things down to their essence without removing the poetry." By taking the role of curator or dramaturge of her own content; demonstrating her possibilities, she suggests a counter stance in a saturated world with limited attention span."
- James Beckett 2016