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Lizz Thabet

she/they
Brooklyn,NY

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Lizz's Project Statement:
I am hiding all year round is an unfinished collection of experiments for disappearing my body in public space.

It includes a wardrobe of full-body camouflage suits based on where I live, made using a homemade pattern software I built. With garments for fall, winter, summer, and spring, I can adapt to the color palettes of each season and hide all year long. These experiments use camouflage as a literal and embodied metaphor for refusing to be legible.
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Visit I am Hiding for an interactive look and opportunity to generate your own patterns for disappearing.
Lizz's Artist Statement: 
I’m an artist, programmer, and aspiring teacher. These practices provide different strategies for unraveling my own being in the world and different performances of looking and being seen.
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My work often starts with drawing as an intuitive exploration and reflection. These sketches evolve into wearable readymades, hand-drawn zines, performative videos, interactive programs, and other objects that allow me to live inside them. I try to create metaphors large enough I can walk into them. Taking dreams and metaphors seriously (and literally) allows me to test and stretch their meanings.
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Lately, I've been researching internet networks and exploring technology skillshare as an exercise in imagination. I'm developing workshops about a privacy-enhancing and censorship-circumvention tool called Tor as a way to talk about how power is distributed in networking infrastructure and to invest in more playful, homemade internets.


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