Else/Xun Zhang

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2026 © Else/Xun Zhang
Based in London, Else/Xun Zhang is a queer, autistic and chronically ill artist and researcher who works primarily with moving image and creative-critical writing. Inhabiting chronic times, their practice-based research investigates the politics and potentials of care in the systematic carelessness of neoliberal societies. They fabulate dialogues that attend to the functioning of language and power relations, telling stories to trace alternative modes of belonging and becoming centred around interdependency, care, and radical kinship.

Awards and Residencies

2025
Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
Emergent 2025 shortlist, BALTIC x Shape Arts, Gateshead
EMAF Award, 38th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Relax Digital Commission, CW+, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London

Exhibitions and Screenings

2026  
Deep Focus: Unbuild/Unbuilt, Goldsmiths, University of London, London
2nd RestFest Film Festival, Online

2025
Video Library, rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris
RE:VISION: 16th East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Library Mothership Screening Marathon, Bungee Space, New York
1st Weekend Domain Experimental Image Festival, Guangzhou
Some Kind of Home, Noiascape, London
Witnessing Witnessing: 38th European Media Art Festival, Lagerhalle, Osnabrück

2024
queer time, VFDalston, London
A Night of Shorts, Fade Street Studios, Dublin
How About Moving Image? Moving Image Working Group, Royal College of Art, London
Uncharted Paths, Royal College of Art Library, London
Tate Modern Late: Sonic Disruption, Tate Modern, London
CAP Cinema, Genesis Cinema, London
Peripheral Attention, Royal College of Art, London

2023
Earthwise, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
Queer Currents, ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam
Inner Workings, Cooke Latham Gallery, London

2022
TENDRILS, Queer Circle, London
Tree/House, Safehouse 1, London
Out There, Southwark Park Galleries, London

Talks

2025
RE:CAPTURE, RE:VISION In Conversation, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

2022
Queer Language in China: An Exploration of Resistance Strategies, Else/Xun and Echo/Yuhan, 与你谈谈我们的酷儿研究, Queer China UK
Queer Language in China: An Exploration of Resistance Strategies, Else/Xun and Echo/Yuhan, Zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures conference, Manchester China Institute

Publications

2024
تَضَاريسْ · 地形, Else/Xun and Ahed Al Kathiri, Robida Magazine

2023
in the middle of both sleeps, A Personal History of Home: An Anthology, edited by Jennifer Wong, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Untitled, The Pluralist: Stories of In-Between

2022
在两种睡眠中间 in the middle of both sleeps, The Pluralist: 9.197 Words in Blue Neon 

Curatorial Work

2024
How About Moving Image? #1, Royal College of Art, London
Peripheral Attention, Royal College of Art, London

Advisory Work
2025-2028
Neighbours Group, Studio Voltaire, London

Education

2026-ongoing    
PhD, School of Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art, London

MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London (2024)
MRes Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art, London (2023)
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Photography, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London (2022)