ARTIST IN RESIDENCE / Zoë Bastin
23rd November – 29th November, 2026
Zoë will be artist in residence at The Lock-Up while they develop and perform their solo performance, What Appears to Be Abundance at a Distance, at The Lock-Up on 27 November 2026.
Zoë Bastin (she/they) is an Australian choreographer, performer, researcher and educator whose interdisciplinary practice sits at the intersection of contemporary dance, visual art and critical theory. Their practice is interested in how bodies are shaped by the world around them — by environments, social structures, gender, power and collective behaviour.
Zoë completed a PhD at RMIT University in 2021 on the philosophy of the body and currently lectures and supervises research projects sessionally at several universities. They are the artistic director of Zoë Bastin Dance, which creates large-scale contemporary dance performances in public space.
Over the past decade, Zoë has presented work nationally and internationally, receiving recognition including the Melbourne Fringe Emerging Company Incubator Award for The Break (2025). As a dancer, they have undertaken residencies at Chunky Move’s Minimax, Dancehouse, Bundanon and Zagreb Dance Centre, Croatia, and participated in the ATLAS Programme at ImPulsTanz, Vienna. Bastin has performed at Dancehouse, The Substation, MADA Gallery, Kings ARI, Seventh Gallery, Bus Projects and Miscellania, among other venues.
