Zinzi Buchanan (they/them) is a non-binary artist working with dance, performance, poetry and facilitation. Zinzi spent a decade in Berlin performing in theatres, cabarets and clubs. Chronic pain turned their attention to facilitation as a way to make space for living beyond survival. Strong themes in Zinzi’s work: death, love, sickness and divination.

About the residency:

‘THE PITS is a project that takes a conscious and sub-conscious journey to the pits - the mines and the depressions - that I believe found their way to my life through my mining ancestors. My arrival at this topic was with an undiagnosable sickness. I was forced to look at my own life and global history to see how we arrived here. I feel we inherited the pits in our bodies. I will start the residency by walking the old mining land in Lanarkshire and writing a psycho(soma)geographic text. In the studio, I will invite queer companionship to face the pits with love and resilience. Although much is still unknown, I would like there to be collective singing and dancing.’

www.zinzibuchanan.com
www.sickbedseries.com
@shuffling_in_the_dark

Funded through our 2022 Spring Residencies Scheme