About the Artist
Zaneta is an interdisciplinary sound artist, nature field recordist, and spirit medium whose work addresses climate care from the sacred, internal, and local experience.
Drawing from the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, Zaneta’s work invites communities to explore their personal connection to local wilderness and how we cultivate a relationship of care with our home ecology.
Weaving local field recordings, environmental studies, sound art, community story gathering, ritual, and channeled sound, Zaneta creates experiences of deep communion with the more than human world. Experiences that evolve into deeper explorations of ecological belonging and personal stewardship through ongoing community exchanges between land and people.
Their work also examines how listening and sounding, as inherently relational and reciprocal experiences, are essential eco-social practices that not only raise awareness of our close connections to non-human kin, but cultivate a unique sense of empathy and interconnectedness that is foundational to stewardship, and ultimately plays a vital role in environmental futures.
Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston.
Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and they were a 2025 Strange Foundation Resident Artist.
Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY.
Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods, and will be premiering on WGXC Wave Farm Radio December 21, 2025.
To learn more about follow them on IG @soundartmagic, or listen to their sound Substack, Moon Pool.