Liana Zhen-ai

Liana Zhen-ai is an interdisciplinary artist and dancer from Los Angeles, CA. Her work uses the lenses of new materialism and object-oriented ontology to interrogate shame, nature, and narrative. She has guest lectured at NYU and Marymount Manhattan College, presenting on disability and modification as glitch; the troubled boundaries of body and environment in dance; and defining choreographies of the global south. Liana was a 2025 participant in PERFORMA's Writing Live Program, and her writing has appeared in Naya Magazine, CultureBot, Dance Art Journal, and No, Dear Magazine.