On September 26th and 27th I will participate in a workshop where we will discuss the possibilities of the bassin of river Noun in Guelmim (Morocco) to be classified as World Heritage Site. It is organised by the association Oasian Noun, the National Institut of Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP), the Ministry of Culture and the Academia of the Kingdom of Morocco.
This is the program:
Next week I will participate in a scholarly convening on Moroccan artist Younès Rahmoun in Northampton, MA (USA), organised by curator Emma Chubb from the Smith College Museum of Art, with the collaboration of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institut and the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
I will talk about the projets (architectural and artistic ones) we collaborated together during the last 20 years.
In addition to Younès convening, I will talk to the architecture students from the Art Department about my experience living, working and researching between the Atlantic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Sea. With the complicity of Elisa Kim, from the Smith College.
More information about the convening coming soon.
Intervention in a small plot in order to provide a place to contemplate the view over the sea and a playground for children. A new urban space determined by the geometry of the plot, the trees and the landscape. More information here.
When friends (and artists) Faouzi Laatiris and Batoul Shimi send you an email:
We do not forget the artwork we promised you because the present (the house plans) you did us it is a project that makes us feel good every day.
Thank you so much
More information about this project, here.
We have just decided the dates for the 6th edition of Caravane Tighmert, an artistic laboratory for contemporary desert cultures we co-organise since 2015.
The call for artists will be published on November the 15th.
After one year, it seems the works for the urban renovation in La Reina neighbourhood are going to start very soon, according to the publications on local medias (El Faro de Ceuta, Ceuta al Día).
It is a small project but once again we tried to provide the maximum of confort to inhabitants with the minimum budget (this time, 60 000€). We also dedicated a lot of time to design the wooden benches instead of choosing them from a catalog. For more information about the project click on the image.
We have updated our website Marsad Drâa (an open research platform on the Saharan desert) with new online ressources; we have also added some new sections (agriculture, architecture and wildlife)..
As a continuation of our practical research on caravans (in the framework of Project Qafila), we are already working on Qafila Rabiaa: Episode 1.
The first episode will be a short trek of 7 days (90 km) starting near Zagora and arriving to M’hamid El Ghizlane. Dates will be the last week of October or the first one of November. It has been thought to introduce some contemporary artists and researches to nomad life in the Saharan desert.
This is a possible route:
More information coming soon.
Présentation à Tétouan des travaux réalisés par les étudiants de l' Institut National des Beaux Arts - INBA lors de l'atelier fait à l'oasis de Tighmert (Guelmim, Maroc) en avril 2019 avec les étudiants de l'École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy, en partenariat avec LE 18 Marrakech et Caravane Tighmert.
Conversation qui a eu lieu au centre culturel LE 18 à Marrakech le 17 avril 2019, avec les artistes Mohamed Arejdal, M'Barek Bouhchichi, Laila Hida, Claudia Triozzi et l’architecte Carlos Perez Marin, ayant fait l'expérience de la résidence Caravane Tighmert dans le passé et qui répondent aux questions de la contemporanéité du désert et de la place de la culture contemporaine dans la société marocaine.
Par ailleurs des étudiants des écoles d'art de Tétouan (INBA) et Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) ont parlé de leurs expériences après l’atelier une semaine que nous avons organisé à Tighmert dans le cadre de Caravane Tighmert 2019 et de leur restitution (dessins, vidéos, installations, photographies et performance) montrée ce soir même au 18.
The 5th edition of Caravane Tighmert will take place next week in the oasis of Tighmert (Guelmim, Morocco), and it will have three parts, researches, visual and performing artists / music / art students from Tetouan (INBA) and Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC). These are the participants:
Khadija El Abyad, M’barek Bouhchichi, Lucia Citterio, Sarah Dornhof, Hanne Van Dyck, Said El Haddaji, Alexandra Kollárová, Marion Lécrivain, Manon de Matauco, Souad El Maysour, Btihal Remli, Lucie Sassiat and Jake Wiener.
Read MoreIn September 2018, we (Abdeljalil Saouli, Gilles Aubry and myself) started to work on an artistic project in Moulay Bouchta Al Khamar, a village situated 75 km north of Fez. We met in Moulay Bouchta to explore the possibilities this place offer to contemporary culture, guided by Abdeljalil who grew up there and decided to come back and settle down after his studies at the art school of Tetouan (Institut National des beaux-arts de Tétouan).
Read MoreConferencia del pasado 12 de febrero 2019 en el Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza “Mariemma” de Madrid sobre espacios desérticos y creación contemporánea, basado en nuestras experiencias en el desierto y especialmente con los proyectos Caravane Tighmert y Project Qafila.
Le 18 is an independent culture centre based in Marrakesh. Last week they presented a new publication on contemporary art with contributors that have participated to their multiples art activities. Its founder, Moroccan photographer Laila Hida, asked me to share my research on caravans, in the framework of Project Qafila, but from her own perspective, approaching the narration of my travel story by the fictionality that allows the internet tools.
Algunas reflexiones a las que nos enfrentamos los ceutíes como sociedad.
