Andrew Zealley's practice situates at the shifting nexus of HIV, queer ecologies and identities, risk, and the body. Organized around sound and listening practices, Zealley’s creative work extends from audio and music methods (and structures) to inform mixed disciplines and media — including music, video, photography, bookmaking, pedagogy, activism, and public sex practices.
Zealley's audio installation, Nature: This Is A Recording, is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada. His recordings are on the following labels; Art Metropole, Disco Hospital Books & Records, How To Explain Silence To A Dead Hare, Public Record/Ultra-red, and Tourette Records.
Zealley holds an an MFA in interdisciplinary studies from OCAD University and a Ph.D. through the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change (EUC) at York University. His dissertation, Risky Beeswax: Artistic Responses to the Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS includes the audio intervention, Soft Subversions, published as a 2LP vinyl record edition in February 2021.
(Photo: Walter Segers)