Zayed Malik

Born in 1991 in Lahore (Pakistan)
Lives and works in Lahore (Pakistan)

Zayed Malik is a performance artist based in Lahore. His work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Malik graduated from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore in 2014. He has exhibited at 39K Gallery, Lahore, amongst others, and participated in the Venice Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival in 2015­­­.

Zayed Malik writes of his performance for KB17: “The work revolves around the idea of being ashamed of yourself and being witnessed by people who judge you as something disgraceful. I will be on my knees and my head will be stuck in a toilet so that I and the toilet are seen as one object. The performance will be a comment on both the performer and the audience.”