Card Zero Studio is:

a multi-artform creative practice that builds smaller scale works from big ideas

an anchor for experimental and divergent artmaking that incorporates inputs from independent artists, researchers and non-artists with relevant skillsets

a starting point for art that unfolds problems, suggests solutions and asks more questions

an exercise in creating encounters that position the body as central to self

in support of radical imaginings

a way to play with absurdity, irreverence and incompleteness as vehicles for fluidity and possibility.

NB. As of of August 2024, Card Zero will begin to house Niki’s arts therapy practice in addition to creative studio work.

Niki Schild

Niki is a multiform artist and arts therapist with a rhizomatic approach to life. She is sincerely devoted to crafting and defending space for emergent, mysterious and artistic dimensions of experience, which she regards as a universal birthright. Some interests: ecological identity, the relational wiring of the human animal, and the relevance of culture to health.

 Formal education

  • Master of Creative Arts Therapy (Dance Movement Therapy) - U. Melb

  • Grad Cert in Urban Horticulture - U. Melb

  • BA (Hons) (Philosophy, Cultural Studies), U. Syd

    • Science units level 1000+2000 (Psychology)

Other training

  • Dance student 25+ years ongoing: various teachers and informal learning (ballet, contemporary, jazz, South West Asian and North African dances, physical theatre, circus elements)

  • Vocal mentorship ongoing: Sonja Drakulich/Voice and Somatic Therapeutics

  • Pilates instructor certification (mat/reformer): Breathe Edu 2017

  • 1 year full-time design studies: UTS 2007