Drawing with Azza Zein
Artist in Residence, Azza Zein extends the following invitation for collaborative drawing and diagramming sessions.
I would like to invite artists and WTS community members to collaborate with me in drawing and diagramming notions of land and labour. The drawing will revolve around questions such as the following:
What informs your understanding of terms such as work, labour and leisure?
How is your understanding of labour informed by your relation to a place?
How do casualisation and precarity link with your relationship with land and place?
How does invisible labour unpack the politics of land?
In what ways do the local politics complicate these notions?
These sessions will be held at WTS.
If anyone is interested to participate please email me to let me know which session you would like to come to at azzazein@gmail.com.
Looking forward to hear your valuable insights and draw with you!
BIO
Azza Zein is a visual artist and writer who lives and works in Narrm/Melbourne. Born to a Syrian mother and a Lebanese father, Zein grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. Her practice-led research examines concepts of value in art through the materiality of domestic space and personal experience as a migrant. Through a process of rematerialisation, conceptualised as care for ‘migrant materials’, her recent works comment on the dematerialisation of the economy and offer a revaluation of invisible labour. Her artistic research draws on her heritage and her background in economics to explore how artistic processes can be alternative modes of revaluation.