• Aziza is the Artist's Art Worker

  • Jan 21 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Aziza is the Artist's Art Worker

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  • Aziza is a Karachi-born illustrator living and working in Berlin. Her personal and professional art is based around collectivism and spreading voices for vulnerable people who are unheard. She walks the walk and talks the talk. If you have nothing but good things to say about Germany, this is not the episode for you. We don’t shy away from talking about oppression, genocide, political silence, and politics that silence.

    As an art worker, Aziza’s day to day shies away from what one may imagine a typical artist does. But most art can’t get done without the art worker to support. Community activism is a need and not a want yesterday and today. Further resources for topics mentioned in this episode are @strikegermany and @archive_of_silence. Aziza followed up with an email:

    Another thing I got caught up with in the last couple of weeks was a new resolution passed by the German government that severely limits freedom of speech particularly for artists, and threatens expulsions for students protesting the Israeli genocide and also deportation and revoking of nationality for cultural workers who do the same. This, on top of cutting public funding for artists and arts spaces whose activities are deemed "anti-semitic", which we already discussed in the episode. The resolution also specifically labels "Middle Eastern and North African people" as its targets.

    I hope this episode inspires an outrage for and interest in justice and equality.


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