tizintizwa
As an art-research duo, Tizintizwa creates pretexts for collective creation and cross-pollination. Their practice centers on collaboration, finding harmony in diversity, and celebrating heterogeneity in nature and culture. They work across various media—film, text, photography, sound, performance, publication, fiction, and non-fiction—blending the real and magical, ancestral and contemporary, oral and written traditions.
Tizintizwa’s poly-disciplinary work mainly explores environmental themes intersecting with class and gender struggles, framed through popular rural culture and ancestral art forms. Their practice involves collective creation with Imdiazen (griots), village elders who recall old songs and legends, rural youth reinterpreting these forms, and small-scale farmers whose knowledge grounds their research.
Tizintizwa’s poly-disciplinary work mainly explores environmental themes intersecting with class and gender struggles, framed through popular rural culture and ancestral art forms. Their practice involves collective creation with Imdiazen (griots), village elders who recall old songs and legends, rural youth reinterpreting these forms, and small-scale farmers whose knowledge grounds their research.
City
Marrakech
Country
Morocco
Region
Africa
Year of Creation
2020
Featured Project
Against Monoculture and Mono-Culture
Against Monoculture and Mono-Culture lies at the intersection between popular North African oral poetry, folktales and legends; food sovereignty and history; environmentalism and agricultural labour in the Atlas mountains. While touching on an inter-related web of subjects, it addresses the contemporary expansion of apple monocultures in the Atlas as a starting point towards a wider reflection on the relationship between artistic and agricultural production—cultural diversity and biodiversity.
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