ZK gazes at themselves in a rounded mirror, they are wearing pink eye shadow and a striped top. Overlaid over the image are two large pink flowers
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ZK Steiner-Fox

ZK Steiner-Fox is an artist from Tāmaki Makaurau based in Berlin. Steiner-Fox’s practice spans video, performance, sculpture, and installation with an interest in self-portraiture, queer self-mythologising, and affirmative discourse around camp and "exuberance.''

—Artist Statement

    ZK Steiner-Fox on CIRCUIT · 3 works

    Everything Forever
    ZK Steiner-Fox

    Everything Forever (2019)

    How might we use sexuality as a compass?

    Everything Forever
    Pony Play
    ZK Steiner-Fox

    Pony Play (2017)

    An informal library of queer antics, code-switching, and sissy discourses.

    Pony Play
    Popular Glory
    ZK Steiner-Fox

    Popular Glory (2016)

    Eerie stage-design, make-up, and costume become a site of horror through campy self-portraiture.

    Popular Glory

    Writing & podcasts featuring ZK Steiner-Fox

    Zac wears red eye contacts, red lipstick, a red faux boa feather scarf, and a nose ring. They are lying down on a red couch, dark curly, short hair. The image is bright and hazy. Their hands delicately hold their feather boa whilst looking beyond the camera.

    ZK Steiner-Fox

    CIRCUIT Cast seriesTe kohinga īpāho·Popular Glory
    Hosted by Robbie Handcock · July 28, 2020

    Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image is a new four-part podcast series hosted by Robbie Handcock, interviewing a range of Aotearoa artists working in moving image who employ queerness as identity, content and strategy. In episode one, Handcock talk to Berlin-based Tāmaki Makaurau artist ZK Steiner-Fox.

    Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image #1 - ZK Steiner-Fox

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