Zoe Coombs Marr
Inspiration for This Work
This is a video installation of an endurance performance. I smoked a packet of cigarettes over 20 minutes inside a head-sized tent. The video is shown inside the tent, still stinking of smoke.
Student Biography
Zoe is interested in the way people negotiate space and behave in front of one another. She enjoys DIY, makeshift and the handmade as well as social and emotional manipulation through performance.
Zoe grew up in Grafton, where she and her best friend wrote and staged a musical instead of going to schoolies week.
Zoe now lives in Sydney. She was a member of the impact ensemble 03, the UTP ensemble 04 and is a founding member of the performance company 'post', the collective 'Cabaret Sauvignon' and art/comedy duo 'The Poon Tang Clan'. She has performed at TINA, Nextwave, and Melbourne Comedy Festival. Zoe has received Oz Co funding.
Zoe also writes and performs her own stand up comedy and solo performance and became the 2006 National Poetry Slam Champion under dubious circumstances.



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