DRAF Broadcasts: Live with Zadie Xa and Amy Budd (21 May 2020) Artist Zadie Xa on Art Night festival, sea animals and highlighting minority stories by Ben Luke for Evening Standard UK Cura Magazine Cover and Feature by Rose Bouthillier

Throughout her practice, Xa uses water and marine ecologies as metaphors for exploring the unknown whilst also alluding to abstract notions of homeland. Xa’s practice is highly collaborative, and she has developed ongoing exchanges with dancers, and musicians. Since 2006, Xa has worked closely with artist Benito Mayor Vallejo.

Zadie Xa, Grandmother Mago , 2019. Performance part of Meetings on Art, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Credit Riccardo Banfi. Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England.

Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo. Curated by Priyesh Mistry. The National Gallery, London UK. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts . Photo by Andrew Bruce

A Sojourn Through Saturn and Across the Southern Sea by Zadie Xa combines spoken-word narration with traditional Korean percussions and abstract compositions to create an otherworldly soundscape to be experienced on London’s Underground.

Zadie Xa’s (b.1983, Vancouver) layered textile works - what she calls her “magical garments” - are sites for exploring contemporary identity construction and performance through cultural sampling, informed by Xa’s own experience within the Asian diaspora.

Art Is A Shapeshifter - Zadie Xa in conversation with Sarah Shin Elephant Magazine: Distant Sounds: How Two Artists Composed a Site-Specific Work from Home by Ravi Ghosh Conversation with Juliet Jacques for The Suite (212) - June 12-2020

May 21, 2020 · Water and its soothing undulations inform much of Zadie Xa’s practice. Growing up surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and later heavily influenced by Korean marine life, Xa views water as both metaphor and material: it is a universal, abstract reminder of a home that is both fixed in place and drifting in uncertainty.

May 21, 2020 · Zadie Xa: EXACERBATION by Bing Hao. Racialised features, figures, and objects are taken to extremes in artist Zadie Xa’s multimedia works, including painting, fashion, performance, video, and installation.

In the sixteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa. Born in 1983 and based in London since studying at the Royal College of Art, Xa works in painting, textiles, film and performance, examining her own identity and her lived experience within the Korean diaspora, using water and marine ecologies as metaphors for ...