Zacky Zhao

Chenxin (Zacky) Zhao is a performance artist and researcher specializing in site-specific performances and socially engaged arts. His work focuses on the political potential of the body, exploring its internal power dynamics and boundaries, and examining the transgression between private and public spaces.

Information
Instagram
Red Book
Email: zacky_z@163.com
Zacky Zhao

Chenxin (Zacky) Zhao is a performance artist and researcher specializing in site-specific performances and socially engaged arts. His work focuses on the political potential of the body, exploring its internal power dynamics and boundaries, and examining the transgression between private and public spaces.


Art Reviews & Podcast

Reverie on the Sofa
Second Skin
The Night Crusier: Church
The Night Crusier: Memory
Roof
Zhu Xiang
On the Possibility of Performance at Home Post-Pandemic
CM310 (IL-4Ra antibody)
Y19-Y22_[RRA.1-7]

Information


Email
Instagram
Red book

Second Skin (2023)

“Within the framework, I am acutely aware of the constraints imposed upon me as a performer, feeling the intense pull between the flow of desire and the currents of power. In this space, my body becomes a battleground, where the forces of control and the whispers of forbidden cravings clash and intertwine.  The framework is a cage, yet it is also a stage, a place where the raw interplay of dominance and longing can be enacted in its most visceral form. The tension is palpable, a living thing that coils around my limbs, presses against my skin, and floods my mind with a fevered awareness of my own subjugation and the tantalizing promise of liberation.”



Zhao.Z. & Todisco.A. (2024). Second Skin. Home (UK).