Editing Nick Zedd (section)

== Career ==
Zedd directed several [[No-budget film|super-low-budget]] feature-length movies, including ''They Eat Scum'', ''Geek Maggot Bingo'', ''War Is Menstrual Envy'' and numerous short films. With [[Jen Miller]], he was a co-creator of the [[Public-access television|public access]] series ''Electra Elf'' (2004–08), featuring New York artists and performers including Miller, [[Faceboy]] and [[Andrew J. Lederer]]. He served as director of photography on another TV series called ''Chop Chop'' (2007), produced by Nate Hill.<ref name="Artforum"/>

Additionally, Zedd acted in such low-budget movies as the [[Super 8 film]] ''Manhattan Love Suicides'' (1985), ''[[What About Me (film)|What About Me]]'' (1993), ''Bubblegum'' (1995), ''Jonas in the Desert'' (1997), ''[[Terror Firmer]]'' (1999), and ''Thus Spake Zarathustra'' (2001). He also appeared in the documentaries ''Llik Your Idols'' (2007) and ''Blank City'' (2010).<ref name="Artforum"/>

Zedd is the author of two autobiographical books, ''Bleed: Part One'' (1992)<ref>{{cite book|title=Bleed: Part One|first=Nick|last=Zedd|editor-first=Ira|editor-last=Cohen|publisher=[[Hanuman Books]]|year=1992|isbn=978-0937815465}}</ref> and ''Totem of the Depraved'' (1997),<ref>{{cite book|first=Nick|last=Zedd|title=Totem of the Depraved|publisher=Two Thirteen Sixty One Publications|date=March 1, 1997|isbn=978-1880985359}}</ref> as well as the self-published novel ''From Entropy to Ecstasy'' (1996).<ref>{{cite book|first=Nick|last=Zedd|title=From Entropy to Ecstasy|asin=B001D4XRGQ|date=January 1, 1996}}</ref> He also contributed to the anthologies ''Up Is Up But So Is Down'',<ref>{{cite book|title=Up Is Up, But So Is Down: Documenting New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992|editor-first1=Brandon|editor-last1=Stosuy|editor-first2=Dennis|editor-last2=Cooper|editor-first3=Eileen|editor-last3=Myles|publisher=[[New York University Press]]|date=October 15, 2006|isbn=978-0814740118}}</ref> ''Captured''<ref>{{cite book|title=Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side|first=Clayton|last=Patterson|publisher=[[Seven Stories Press]]|date=May 3, 2005|isbn=9781583226742}}</ref> and ''Low Rent''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from the Portable Lower East Side|first=Kurt|last=Hollander|publisher=[[Grove Press]]|date=September 20, 1994|isbn=978-0802134080}}</ref> In the 1980s Zedd published ten issues of the ''Underground Film Bulletin,'' a [[zine]] intended to promote the [[Cinema of Transgression]]. Issue 4 contained the ''Cinema of Transgression Manifesto,'' which was also published in ''The Theory of Xenomorphosis'' (1998).<ref name=newmuseum>{{cite web|url=https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/196/films-of-nick-zedd|work=The New Museum|title=Films of Nick Zedd|date=July 19, 2013|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref>

In the early 1990s, Zedd toured with [[Lisa Crystal Carver]]'s [[Suckdog]] Circus, exhibiting his films. Performing with experimental [[noise music]] band Zyklon Beatles, Zedd released the "Consume and Die" 7-inch single on Rubric Records in 2000.<ref name=newmuseum/>

After exhibiting oil paintings in 2010 at the ADA and Pendu galleries, Zedd presented a major retrospective of films, videos, and paintings at the [[Microscope Gallery]] in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adagallery.com/Nick_Zedd1.html|work=ADA Gallery|title=Nick Zedd {{!}} WOG {{!}} October 1–30, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325100522/http://www.adagallery.com/Nick_Zedd1.html|archive-date=March 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pendunyc.com/events/11-05-10|work=Pendv Org Arts & Actions|title=11-05-10 / PENDV GALLERY featuring the art of NICK ZEDD|date=November 9, 2010|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=913|work=Microscope Gallery|title=Nick Zedd {{!}} Eye Transgress {{!}} January 8 – February 7, 2011 {{!}} Opening January 8, 7-10pm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502070814/http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=913|archive-date=May 2, 2013|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref>

In 2012, he attended a retrospective of his films at the eighth [[Directors Lounge|Berlin International Directors Lounge]] and exhibited work at the [[KW Institute for Contemporary Art]] in the same city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://directorslounge.net/16504907584-2|work=Directors Lounge|title=in attendance of Nick Zedd|date=January 19, 2012|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/you_killed_me_first_55|work=KW Institute for Contemporary Art|title=YOU KILLED ME FIRST {{!}} 19. 2.– 8. 4. 12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204203025/http://www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitions/you_killed_me_first_55|archive-date=December 4, 2014}}</ref>

In 2013, Zedd published ''The Extremist Manifesto'', an essay denouncing [[contemporary art]] and the class structure that promotes it while announcing the emergence of the Extremist Art movement in Mexico City, which sought to subvert the edicts of established art institutions and curatorial ideologues. This manifesto, first released online, then in a self-published ''Hatred of Capitalism'' magazine issued in Mexico City (in English and Spanish) was reprinted a year later by the [[Museo Universitario del Chopo]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chopo.unam.mx/fanzinoteca/2014/NickZedd.html|work=Museo Universitario Del Chopo|title=El zine invisible {{!}} Nick Zedd|access-date=March 1, 2022|language=es}}</ref> along with two more issues as part of the ''Fanzinoteka'' exhibition. At a screening at the [[New Museum]] in New York, Zedd was presented with the [[Kathy Acker#Posthumous reputation|Acker Award for Lifetime Achievement]], a tribute given to "members of the avant garde arts community who have made outstanding contributions in their discipline in defiance of convention, or else served their fellow writers and artists in outstanding ways".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2013/06/for-nonconforming-artists-the-envelope-please.html|work=Arts Journal|title=For Nonconforming Artists, the Envelope Please|first=Jan|last=Herman|date=June 2, 2013|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref>

In 2014, Zedd exhibited three motion pictures at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York as part of a posthumous retrospective of films by [[Christoph Schlingensief]], who had cited Zedd as a major influence on his work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/152|work=[[Museum of Modern Art]]|title=Short Films by Nick Zedd and Christoph Schlingensief|date=May 26, 2014|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref> Later in 2014, Zedd presented his first public exhibition of paintings in Mexico City, in a group show curated by Aldo Flores at Salon des Aztecas Gallery in [[Coyoacán]]. In 2015, Zedd presented his first one-man show of paintings at the V&S Gallery in Mexico City. Zedd also shot an [[8 mm film|8mm]] short entitled ''Paradise Lost'', which was featured in the anthology film ''Impression X'' (2023).<ref>{{cite web|access-date=November 3, 2024|title=Impression X|url=https://mubi.com/en/gr/films/impression-x=[[MUBI}}</ref>