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Zimu Zhang a researcher, curator, and moving image practitioner. She completed her PhD research on Anthropocene visuality and counter-visuality in contemporary Chinese visual culture in 2022 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She is a member of the Wanwu Practice Group, which focuses on ecology and art research in east Asia. She is also an alumna of DocNomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in documentary filmmaking (2012–2014), SoundImageCulture (SIC, 2016), and Berlinale Talents (2016). Her films and art projects have been featured in international festivals and events, such as as the European Media Art Festival, Visible Evidence, Video Vortex, China Independent Film Festival. Zimu has curated screening programs for Singapore International Film Festival, Inner Mongolian Film Week, and Beijing International Short Film Festival. She co-founded Moonshine Screening Project (2017–2019, Guangzhou SJT co-governance space) and Black Tent Theatre (2021, Guangdong Times Museum), which focus on the ecology and sociality of moving image and moving image activities.
RCC Research Project: Configuring the Anthropocene Visuality and Countervisuality of the East
River in China
Selected Publications:
- “On the Practice of Village Film and Place-based Film Archive: Towards the Ecological and Archival Chinese Independent Documentary.” In Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present . . . and Future?, edited by Chris Berry, Luke Robinson, Sabrina Qiong Yu, and Lydia Dan Wu. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming.
- “Social Media Art Practices as Prefigurative Politics: Echoes from China.” In Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production, edited by Guobin Yang and Wei Wang, 179–200. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2021.