Born 1992. Lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.
Education
2016 - 2021
PhD School of Art, RMIT University
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons 1st class), School of Art, RMIT University
Awards and Residencies
2022
Villa Lena Art Foundation Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2021
Emerging Choreographers Program, Dancehouse
2021
Minimax Residency, Chunky Move
2016 - 2020
Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship
2020
Dual Existence, Digital Residency Program
2018
c3 Art Space Development Residency
2017
Testing Grounds Residency
2015
Vice Chancellor's Award, RMIT University
Selected Performance & Exhibition History
Waves Are Disturbances
2022
(FORTHCOMING) Chunky Move
2022
Performed by Haley Does and Al Jefimenko, Out of Bounds, Temperance Hall
2022
Film - Melbourne Fashion Festival's Independent Program, Centre for Projection Art, Collingwood Yards
2022
Essay - Enough is Enough, COVA, University of Melbourne and Perimeter Books
2021
performed by Haley Does, Inertia, Dancehouse with support from Regional Arts Victoria
2020
performed by Zoë Bastin, Bloc Projects
2018
BLINDSIDE Regional Residency, Coastal VIC, NSW and QLD
Enough - Commissioned by NETS Victoria for Conflated National Touring Exhibition
2022
SOAD Gallery Australian National University
2023 - 2024
(FORTHCOMING) Deakin University Art Gallery, Logan Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery and Horsham Regional Gallery
That Which Was Once Familiar
2021
Performed by Hayley Does, Alice Jefimenko, Ebony Muller, Julia Luby, Sue Hockey, Tizana Saunders and Zoë Bastin, presented by Dancehouse and Bus Projects for Midsumma Festival with support from Chunky Move, Melbourne City Council and Yarra City Arts
2021
Film - Virtue Signalling, BLINDSIDE
2021
Prints - Commissioned by Art Box with Negative Press
2020
Film - Bus Video, Bus Projects
Volition
2022
Sculpture - Platform for Shared Praxis, C A V E S Gallery
2018
Performed by LJ Connolly-Hiatt, Jesse Gall and Sue Hockey, c3 Contemporary Art Space
Step One - Commissioned by Headspace Australia
2020
Visible online exhibition
Redemption for the Redeemer
2020
KINGS Artist Run
2019
Bus Projects
Unknowing
2019
Felt Space
2018
Movement and Art Series curated by John Nixon, MADA Gallery, Monash University
2018
Seventh Gallery
“Milk with one please”
2017
Performed by Laura Albee Barton and Zoë Bastin, Treatment Flightlines, curated by David Cross and Cameron Bishop, Werribee Treatment Plant presented by Melbourne Water and Deakin University
Not Discrete
2016
SUBSTATION
Workshops & Public Programs
2022
(FORTHCOMING) Workshop at Brunswick Mechanics Institute with support from Arts Merri-Bek
2022
Body Politics Season Two featuring Steven Rhall, Archie Barry, Jo Lloyd and Lilian Steiner, Bus Projects
2022
Waves Workshop, On the Table, Dancehouse
2020
Queer(y)ing Creative Practice, radio show interviewing artists live on Bus Radio, Bus Projects
2021
Dance, gender and pokemon, Youth Agitators Workshop, City of Casey
2018
Body Politics Season One featuring Shelley Lasica, Eugenia Lim, Bridie Lunney and Torie Nimmervoll, Bus Projects
Speaking Appearances
2022
(FORTHCOMING) Queer Antidotes: Specificity in Theory and Practice, co-conyened with Hamish McIntosh featuring Melissa Ratliff, Frances Barrett, Phillip Adams, Sang Thai and Eden Swan AAANZ Annual Conference, University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
2022
Art Guide Australia Podcast Conflated #1: Zoë Bastin on conflation, bodies and transformative politics
2022
(In)Corporeal Encounters, Emergent disorders of the (kin)aesthetic with Brooke Stamp, Amelia Wallin and Tiriki Onus, VCA Dance, University of Melbourne in partnership with Dancehouse
2022
Articulations Articulations with Devika Bilimoria, Eugenia Lim, Jodi Hanes and Scotty So hosted by Centre for Projection Art and Collingwood Yards for Melbourne Fashion Week
2021
TWWOF discussion with Dr Philipa Rothfield and Josephine Mead, Chunky Move
2020
Whose bodies are allowed to count and why, paper presented for Research Exchange, RMIT University
2018
‘What Makes an Object Happy?’ paper presented at AAANZ Annual Conference, RMIT University
2018
The Estranged Body, Power of Immersion, Facilitated by Greg Seigworth, Free University of Berlin
2018
The why of Choreography, conversation with Shelley Lasica and Dr Sally Gardener, c3 Art Space
2017
Treatment; Flightlines Prof. David Cross, Cameron Bishop and Fiona Hilary in conversation with Zoë Bastin, Research Exchange, RMIT University
2017
Critical Conversation Two: Spatial Discourse, facilitated by Katie Paine, First Site Gallery
2016
Rolling, Hanging, Tying; a continuous chain of events, paper presented at AAANZ Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra