© Johannes Zits. Photo Peter Onyschuk.
Canada
www.johanneszits.com
As a performance-based artist, Johannes Zits’ work is grounded in an ethical commitment to engaging with the natural world, not as a passive backdrop but as an active, responsive collaborator. Moving between live performance, still photography, and video, he expands the notion of the performer to include the materials he works with, exploring how body, image, language, and land shape and inform one another. Through sustained attention, gesture, and care, he invites an embodied dialogue with more-than-human entities and ecologies, asking how we might listen to, move with, and respond to the environments we inhabit.
Since graduating from York University in 1984, he has performed and exhibited his art extensively across Canada and around the world, in such places as Zendai Contemporary, Shanghai; ATEA, Mexico City; and International BNL of Asuncion, Paraguay. His work is in public collections such as Copenhagen Contemporary Museum, The Alberta Arts Foundation, and York University.
