Dr Zejun Yao is an artist-sportive-researcher. He identifies his practice as medium to address and demonstrate the artefact and process of contemporary art making on public participation and artistic collaboration, his current research focuses on the production of knowledge which requests and responds culturally and artistically to the emerging field of Art and Sport. Yao’s stance is driven by an interest in the multi-sensory and perceptive, primarily addressing audiovisual techniques and cinematographic aesthetics. His work often takes the form of performances and installations that use bodily gestures and movements including dance, gymnastics and sport.
He has exhibited and performed in numerous galleries and cultural institutions including Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), Show Off FIAC (Paris), Institut français Kyushu (Fukuoka), Confucius Institute de Bretagne (Rennes), French Cultural Centre in Beijing, and various international film festivals (Busan, Rotterdam, Taipei). His academic journey includes a practice-led PhD in Fine Art at the University of Leeds (2023), an MA in International and Artistic Cooperation at the University of Paris 8 (2015), independent study in audiovisuals at the University of Kyushu (2012), and a BA in Film Studies and Directing at ESEC Paris (2007).
Artists' books
JUN: juste un nom, 2021
Nowhere Nowhere Nomad, 2019
Let Jun Run, 2015
Collaborate & Contact
hello (at) zejun (dot) me