Zachary Schoenhut
Zachary Schoenhut (b. 1991, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, anthropological researcher and mental health practitioner currently living in Brussels, BE. As an artist, his performances and creative endeavours consistently attempt to untangle language from experiences of separateness, oftentimes in the hopes of making real the interconnectedness and inseparability of social life. As a researcher, Zacharys focus rests within the political and theoretical implications present at the intersections of a variety of discourses: phenomenology, existential psychotherapy, queer theory, linguistics, performance studies, black studies, and ethnography. Alongside his artistic practice, Zachary has worked within a variety of positions as a mental health practitioner and recovery specialist. He maintains an individual one-on-one personal practice, working with individuals struggling with substance use disorder to more complex dual diagnoses (BPD, Bipolar, ASD, ADHD). He has also worked within a closed mental health facility in the Netherlands as a counsellor, facilitating group therapy alongside one-on-one counselling. His interests in creative-social practices and his professional experience in mental spaces now inform his current motivation to bring these two methodologies together.
Learn more about Zachary Schoenhut's 20 minute presentation Multiplicity of Resonant Disruption – Act I: Cacophony & Act II: Envelopment for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2020 at Radio Kootwijk, August 2020.
Learn more about Zachary Schoenhut's written MA thesis (DAI, 2020): Transcribbling: Queer Acts of Archival Disruption
Zachary is one of the conveners of the DAI Friends & Alumni Grant
Follow Zachary's "Life after DAI" by means of his website and instagram