Ayman Kaake is a photo-media visual artist and performance creator whose work explores the complexities of isolation that come from starting a new life away from Lebanon.

MzRizk is a Lebanese Australian DJ, radio presenter, live performer and event curator. 

Ezz Monem is a photo-based artist, who repurposes and transforms images, drawing on his experience growing up in Egypt and migrating to Australia. 

We interviewed Ezz, Ayman and MzRizk at the Arts Centre Melbourne, as part of Art Souk.

We chat about:

• Everyone being an Engineer
• Coming out as an artist
• Dan’s first radio show at 6 years old
• Zaffé 
• The rebrand of gossip to community news
• Manipulating found footage
• Dance as resistance
• Using your camera to talk
• How family relationships change when you leave home
• Nostalgic supermarket pieces
• Halal v Haram art projects
• Sally Field was the real kickstart for Islamophobia

Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

Guests: Ayman Kaake, Ezz Monem and MzRizk

Music by: the Green Twins

Edited by: Kate Robinson

Special thanks: Multicultural Arts Victoria, Arts Centre Melbourne, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, City of Melbourne and MzRizk for curating this incredible event.  

This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to the Elders of these lands past and present and also acknowledge the neighbouring Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. 

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