Sam Zanardo

“How do you tell a story? How does a story get told from fractured bits? What happens when you forget your story? What happens when you really remember your story? What happens when you repeat it too many times? What happens when somebody plasters their story onto you? It’s not about me talking about who I am at all. It’s a voice that kind of goes, what do you want? How do you see? Who am I? It’s mostly questions and zero answers.” Laurie Anderson

Sam Zanardo [she/they], is a visual and performance artist born in Italy
and currently based in the Netherlands. Coming from a dance and mar-
tial arts background, the notions of endurance, constriction, and repetition have been central points in their practice. In particular, Sam has been investigating how transformation can be possible within a certain given structure or a set of pre-determined rules. Working through a physicality which aims at exhaustion as a trajectory, together with the choice of using mass mediatic platforms as mediums to display these actions, has been a way for them to address subjectivity as a constant de-composition and re-configuration process.

In their current work, Sam is exploring storytelling through choreographic practices that involve performance, filmmaking and writing. They are rese- arching folklore, rituality, and magic in Southern Italy, weaving the religious tales of the tradition with personal narratives and mass mediatic archives. And yet, these fragments are still held within the ending pattern of the work, while their threads get interlaced with the colors of heterogeneous plots and stories, giving birth to new ornaments.

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