Our ZAT magazine: 3rd issue - August 2011
This third issue of the magazine ZAT (Zone Artistique Temporaire) is entirely devoted to the popular artistic action Laaroussa, in order to bear witness to what makes sense artistically and humanly when it comes to a community and a territory.
In this case, Laaroussa (the doll in Arabic) takes the form of a community artistic intervention carried out from February to June 2011 in the north-west of Tunisia, in Sejnane, by artists who wanted to dream together of social, committed and militant art. Getting out of the city to think artistically about rural spaces a few months after the Tunisian Revolution.
Laaroussa is an encounter with a region, a people and, above all, a deep love affair. Laaroussa was developed over more than six months for Act I, bringing together a group of around sixty women from the region with a collective of artists.
These women have always worked with clay to make containers or anthropomorphic statuettes, which they sell on the roadside to provide a meagre income for their households. This earthwork has been the same for centuries, and these women use their expert hands to perpetuate an ancestral know-how.
The artistic collectives Dream City (Tunisia) and La Luna (France), along with a number of artists from Tunisia, France and Benin, have joined forces with the craftswomen and designers of Sejnane to create the Collectif Laaroussa.
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3rd issue - August 2011
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