Samia Sayed

About

Living and working on the land of the Gadigal people, Samia Sayed is a contemporary artist and writer who embodies text through performance, interrogating and revising notions of religion, culture and gender. Through her performance work Sayed aims to disrupt traditional forms of storytelling through poetry and use her big, brown, fat, strong body to disrupt the spaces between performer and audience. Recently, Sayed participated in the (re)situate Biennale program by Creative Australia, has performed bodies of work in spaces such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales for MONUMENTAL (working title), curated by Latai Taumoepeau and Brian Fuata, The Alex for The Front Room curated by Emily Parsons-Lord, and Carriageworks for FEAST curated by Salote Tawale. Additionally, Sayed has undertaken text-based performance residencies at Campbelltown Art Centre, Artspace, and Firstdraft. Her performances have also been featured in Public Programs including Invocation at Firstdraft, Day for Night at Carriageworks, All Ears: a listening party at Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Studio Stories at Parramatta Artist Studios.

Experimental Micro-Fellowship, 2020

Experimental Performance Fellowship, 2024