Azza Ezzat
visual artist

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Azza Ezzat
visual artist

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    • About
      • Who I am
      • Current & Upcoming
      • In press
    • Work
      • Selected works
      • Art Projects
      • Exhibitions
      • Early works
      • acquired
    • publications
      • Essays
      • Artist books
      • Miscellaneous
  • Home
  • About
    • Who I am
    • Current & Upcoming
    • In press
  • Work
    • Selected works
    • Art Projects
    • Exhibitions
    • Early works
    • acquired
  • publications
    • Essays
    • Artist books
    • Miscellaneous

When the city stands still (2020-2025)

When the city stands still  is a research project in which visual  artist Azza Ezzat collaborates with geographer Aya Nassar to trace  objects, old and new, that populated Cairo skies during COVID-19  lock-down.


The  project is Aya Nassar's post-doctoral fellowship, funded by the British  Academy.  "When the city stands Stills", PI: Aya Nassar The University  of Warwick, the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship PFOS21\210376


Artworks & visual research: Azza Ezzat

Text & research: Aya Nassar

Assalam model main station at 5:00pm, 2025
Route10 (2021-2025)
Kites, Billboards and Bridges (KBB 2021-2022)

Assalam model main station at 5:00 pm - 2025

Azza Ezzat, Detail of موقف السلام النموذجي

Assalam model main station at 5:00pm
Sunday, May 24, 2020, The first day of Eid al-Fitr and the first day of applying the new COVID-19 lock-down time for the feast week, to begin at 5pm instead of 8pm.

The work is An attempt to monitor ways of using the sound to controlling the public space and exploiting the in-between infrastructure (the tunnel under the ring road) to announce the beginning of the curfew at the same time in both formal and informal spaces of Assalam model main station.


Assalam model main station at 5:00pm is part of “When the city stands still (2020-2025)”, an interdisciplinary research project about Cairo's Sky During the Curfew – supported by the British Academy

 

موقف السلام النموذجي الساعة 5م
يوم الأحد 24 مايو2020 الموافق أول أيام عيد الفطر وأول يوم لتطبيق المواعيد الجديدة لحظر الكورونا الخاصة بأسبوع العيد لتبدأ من 5م بدلا من 8م

العمل محاولة لرصد طرق التحكم في الفراغ العام عن طريق الصوت, واستغلال البنية التحتية البينية (النفق أسفل الدائري) كوسيلة لاعلان فرض حظر التجوال في نفس الوقت لكلتا المساحتين الرسمية وغير الرسمية لموقف السلام النموذجي


موقف السلام النموذجي الساعة 5م هو جزء من مشروع “عندما تقف المدينة ساكنة (2020-2025)”, مشروع بحثي متعدد التخصصات عن سماء القاهرة وقت الحظر– بدعم من الأكاديمية البريطانية

Assalam model main station at 5:00 pm, Pen & ink on canvas, 100×30cm ×3 parts, 

total size: 300×30 cm, 2025

    Route10 (2021-2025)

    Route 10: Researching alternative ways of understanding urban reality of Cairo

    Artworks & visual research: Azza Ezzat

    Text & research: Aya Nassar - Ismail Albahar


    Route10 project (2021-2025) is part of “When the city stands still (2020-2025)”, an interdisciplinary research project about Cairo's Sky During the Curfew – supported by the British Academy.

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    'Kites, Billboards & Bridges' series

    “Kites, Billboards and Bridges” is a research project in which visual artist Azza Ezzat collaborated with geographer Aya Nassar to trace objects, old and new, that populated Cairo skies during COVID-19 lockdown.


    Kites, Billboards & Bridges series (2021-2022) is part of “When the city stands still (2020-2025)”, an interdisciplinary research project about Cairo's Sky During the Curfew – supported by the British Academy.

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