ZAK MAK THE POET PUPPET
2013 - 2022
It is an interactive puppet show that has been performed many times in several marginalised areas. "Zakaria al-Makarkak/ Zakaria the Messy" or Zak Mak as it has been abbreviated once he resettled in Ireland virtually. He is a character whose roots extend to the so-called Arab Renaissance. Now, it is time to talk about body renaissance. Zak is a writer and poet who is full of youthful spirit and is suffering from a persistent cough. The character of Zak is an interactive puppet made of newspapers and animated by Aram Wahhoud. The animator and the puppet share the same feet but have a separate upper body. This separation is a result of the intellectual-physical separation. Zak always appears in the least expected places to recite poems from his collection of poems.
MEET THE ARTIST
Published in June 2019
I was the guest of the fifteenth episode of the series #Meet_the_Artist, which is a short interview about my project. Ettijahat- Independent Culture published it, and supported the project as part of the fourth edition of the #Laboratory_of_Arts program.