Danni Zuvela is a research-led curator, whose interest in experimental practice generates exhibitions, performances and pedagogical events. In 2004, an encounter at a screening of Australian experimental film led to the formation, with Sally Golding and Joel Stern, of the artists’ collective OtherFilm. OtherFilm produced 4 major festivals (2004; 2006; 2007 and 2012) and numerous film-performance events, often focused around ‘expanded cinema’ and utilising non-traditional spaces such as a historic gaol (Institutional Capture), and a dry-docked warship (Siege Mentality).   

In 2009, with Pat Hoffie, Catherine Elwes and Stephen Ball, she produced the major survey Figuring Landscapes project, an exhibition and book exploring Australian and British responses to landscape via artists’ film and video presented at the Tate Modern. She continues to curate experimental and artists film and video, with recent screen-based programs at the Austrian Filmmuseum and the exhibition program at Why Listen to Plants Melbourne at RMIT DesignHub. 

In 2013, with Joel Stern, she began working as a curator with Liquid Architecture. Since then, she has curated hundreds of performance events with Joel for Liquid Architecture. In 2014, she began working with Gold Coast The Walls Artspace. At The Walls, she curated exhibition and performance events including a solo show by American animator Jodie Mack and the Head Land exhibition, co-curated with Rebecca Ross.

In 2017, Danni curated the major project Enter The Map, an experimental cartographic survey exploring cartographic and cultural memory of the Gold Coast with local artists Scott Redford, Libby Harward, and Carlotta. Over 2018, Danni steered Why Listen to Plants, a multi-part project expressed in many ways in many places, including an experimental walking and listening tour in Berlin, and a major exhibition, co-curated with Karolin Tampere in Lofoten in the Arctic Circle in Norway. Danni’s curatorial research continues to explore connections between place, time, memory and the natural world, with a special focus on non-human subjectivity. 

Selected Projects: 
Why Listen to Plants 
Bluenoise 
Enter the Map
Water Rites