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TECHNOPRECARIOUS COVER
Cover design for Goldsmiths Press Precarity Lab
Commissioned by
Goldsmiths Press
Link
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmi...
2020
Cover design for Goldsmiths Press Precarity Lab
Commissioned by
Goldsmiths Press
Link
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmi...
2020
A cooperative show by Art & Science, University of Applied Arts and Vienna Art Week with an array of scientific institutes at Vienna Art Week 13 in MQ, Ovalhalle. In addition to being an exhibitor, I was also responsible for the exhibition graphics, communication, catalogue and production.
Commissioned by
MA Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Link
http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/activities/crucial_experiments
2013
Identity & artwork for cycling merchandise.
Commissioned by
Phil
Link
https://www.trikoterie.at/
Instagram
@trikoterie
Credit
Pascal Lebersorger
Post processing
Pascal Lebersorger, Stefan Schiermeier
2017
SMITHS is the Goldsmiths student union magazine I was assigned Design Editor. Three issues were published throughout two semesters. Our goal for the year was to develop a feature based magazine, that would be redefined with each issue and refining its identity as we progressed. Hence our motto “We can do anything with this”. The features, photography and visuals were entirely sourced from the student body, resulting in the democratisation of the magazine both by the student body and for it. During my tenure as Design Editor I designed the SMITHS logo, the Goldsmiths year planner, distribution material, the magazines themselves, and organised the 3rd issues’ launch exhibition.
Commissioned by
BA Design Goldsmiths University of London
Link
issuu.com/unionplus/docs/smiths_issue_3
2009—2010
My brilliant partner Benjamin Weetman, the rest of the graphics team and myself are responsible for the graphics, identity and show graphics of the Future Folk BA Design University of London degree show. The catalogue doubled up as a guide and memento to the 4 day exhibition. We approached the design of the document to correspond with our ideas about the distribution of a collective publication. Our intention was to take full advantage of this rare opportunity, with the intention of applying our graphical knowledge and resources to challenge and push the traditional format. There are 1000 copies of the released publication, risograph printed with Ditto Press, on 80 gsm evercopy recycled paper inside a screen printed Fenner 270g colourset cover, bound together with rubber bands.
Context
Degree Show
Commissioned by
BA Design Goldsmiths University of London
Link
It's Nice That
futurefolkdesign.co.uk
2011
The initiative sponsored by SHIFT was a silk screen workshop-concept facilitated by Viadukt in collaboration with a number of female artists, who brought us each together with volunteers from various marginalised communities. The outcomes of these individual workshop series, culminated in a group show.
It was my privilege to be paired with a group of strong teenage refugee women. My workshop for them aimed to materialise the groups impression of the city they now call home.
Commissioned by
Viadukt
2018
KARAK one off raku tiles during Vienna Design Week showed at Schiffamt Showroom.
2018
Mural on private wall, Tehran.
Context
self initiative
2019
Mural on Theresianumgasse, Vienna.
Context
Gallery Hilger NEXT
Cash Cans & Candy
2016
Collaborative sculpture with BOICUT using acrylics & spray paint on constructed plastics.
Context
Gallery Hilger NEXT
Cash Cans & Candy
Availability / Price
Click here & ask
2016
Fetishising mundane consumer goods may be a symptom of frustration or mere sexual curiosity. Either way, it is a practice that many tend to be kept even more private than the already socially stigmatised regular sexual behaviour. Out of shame, fear of judgement or of crossing rationalised social taboos regarding the practices of procreation many will deny this industrially curious part of their desire or fantasy. This series does not intend to demonise nor cast judgement, but rather romanticise this repressed part of our base drive.
2 × Acrylic on canvas 120 × 80 cm
7 × 4 — 6 colour screen print
series 70 × 50 cm
ED. 10 + 4 a.p
Viadukt Artist & Residency
Contact me for availability
2017
Mural for #Streetartpassage
166 × 238 cm
Commissioned by
Jan Arnold Gallery, MQ
2018
Context
Experimental
2018—2019
Edition of 2 digital prints 50 x 70 cm
2018
I have run out of places to hide. I’ve been relocated, displaced, expelled, bureaucratically forgotten, uprooted, dissimilated and disenfranchised. I was born from Iranian parents, then on diplomatic mission in Harare. So along with Persian heritage, British upbringing and Viennese schooling, my passport labels me Iranian and only recently Austrian. Beyond simple desire to form identity without distinctive or localisable origin, I consider Art and Design fertile ground for social-transformational projects beyond “self”-despite, or perhaps thanks to a potential for self-erasure.
As a concept-driven, cross-disciplinary designer and artist, I am capable of making, thinking, building, researching and development. I resent having my works labeled “Iranian” or “Austrian” and I dread the horrendous deadlock of orientalism. I find hope in a kind of pan-European outlook, one which dismisses systemically ingrained categories like ‘immigration’ in favour of “utopian” urgency.
With the utmost respect, I have no intention of promoting one or the other institution, through my artistic endeavours. This will certainly not be my final attempt at challenging myself by branching out to areas outside my realm of studies and occupation, but rather I hope it can be one of many to follow.
Zahra Shahabi
Piaristengasse 62/3-4
1080 Vienna
Call me: +43 699 11334040
Write me: z@zeitgleich.at
VAT: ATU72419019
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