Dasha Tan was born in Kulin Nation, with Sakha (Native Siberian), Qazaq, Cantonese (multi-generational settlement in Borneo/Malaya in the rubber tapping industry), Russian and Persian-Dagestani heritage. They interrogate colonial environmental epistemologies of emptiness that have been rendered on both Arctic Siberia and the Qazaqstani desert steppes through scientific concepts, dramaturgy, art direction, choreography, dreaming practices, architectural methodology, transnationalism//political histories, realms of breath, linguistics and performance art.
They currently in work in bush regeneration and urban farming, having previously worked in a data centre warehouse.