COMMA Session #3

About the event 

Comma Sessions are back! Come join us for a pre valentines evening with Zara Lall and Havva Malyalizade from Collective Irritation.  

Zara Lall was born and raised in India and is currently studying Visual Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Havva Malyalizade, a Turkish-speaking Cypriot, studies Fine Arts at AKI ArtEZ.
Together as Collective Irritation, Zara and Havva envision a future in which art circulates like stories rather than commodities, a shared language of reflection, resistance, and repair. Their practice moves across an ever-evolving spectrum of themes, with narratives rooted in colonial critique, feminism, intersectionality, queerness, and cultural analysis.

On Friday the 13th, Zara and Havva bring a performance video screening and painting workshops with henna and coffee stains to BlackBrick, where we will reflect on affective labour, and discuss the dissonance in social and political taboos. 

In collaboration with BlackBrick, COWMAG launches Comma Sessions: a bi-monthly series of research events exploring themes behind our upcoming publications.
Each session takes a different form, offering space to experiment, reflect, and share ideas. We are exploring Dissonance, looking at misalignments in work processes, sound, identity, culture, experience and the awkward space between recognition and the unfamiliar.

Practical Information

When: 13th of February

Time: 19.30- walk in, 20.00- start

Location: BlackBrick, Hoge Bothofstraat 31F

Entrance is free!