Zoja Zixuan Wei is a durational performance and movement artist exploring post-secular spirituality and the liminal space beyond anthropocentric epistemologies. Often engaging with sensory deprivation and audience participation, her work situates the performance event as a site of becoming—where bodies, materials, and the spatio-temporality intra-act into states of ecstatic permeability. Zoja holds dual master’s degrees from USC and LSE, and is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University interested in affect theory, Daoist philosophy, and new materialism. Trained in the Marina Abramović Method and Gaga Movement Language, she facilitates workshops at international well-being centers and performs in immersive and experimental theatre contexts.

Naturysthesia: Embodied Cleansing and the Five Element of Nature Movement

Inspired by the Marina Abramović Performance Method and Daoist philosophy, this embodied movement workshop explores the balance of inner energies and yin-yang dynamics through sensory immersion and contact improvisation. Following the rites de passage framework, participants will be guided to move through a pre-liminal phase of the Shamanic Qi energy wash, a liminal phase of the five elements of nature (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) dance, and a post-liminal phase of reflective meditation. The workshop includes sensory exercises in both group and partner settings, with moments of complete darkness.