Danni Zuvela is an artist, writer and curator based on the Gold Coast, Australia. Her work often explores questions of non-human subjectivity, and relationships between the senses and society. Through research, critical writing, residencies, exhibitions, discursive public programs and publications, Danni engages with artists and non-artists in the production of relationships and the exchange of knowledge. With a background in experimental music and performance, her practice uses research and ideas to fuel experiences and encounters where the natural world is often a protagonist.

Following on from the research project WHY LISTEN TO ANIMALS, co-curated with Joel Stern for Liquid Architecture, in the 2018 research project WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS, Danni curated a series of talks, walks, food, music and kayak performances in Berlin, Gold Coast, Daylesford, and exhibitions at DesignHub gallery, Melbourne, and at Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvaer. In 2021, she curated WATER RITES for ACE Open as part of the Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art held in Adelaide, South Australia, exploring the subjectivity of water as a non-human actor, featuring an exhibition, screen program performances, a seaweed forage and custom ferment.

Danni’s ongoing artistic research into the threatened Southern Swamp Orchid, Phaius tankervilleae var. australis, explores the conditions of this endangered species through collaborations with botanists, queer ecologists and orchid growers in installations and sound works. Her work has been featured in Bleach Festival (2020) and Big City Lights (2022), and discussed on Radio National, inQueensland and in Planthunter.

Selected Projects:
Orchid House
Rogue Syntax
Here, Hear
Water Rites