حياة عادية / La Vie Ordinaire / Ordinary Life - Marrakech Bienalle 2012

حياة عادية /La Vie Ordinaire/Ordinary Life

An immersive performance by Matthew Stone and Phoebe Collings-James

02/03/2012
9 pm - 11.30pm  

Hammam el-Bacha

Note: Exact timing of strictly women-only and men-only performances tbc. Please enquire at Rhiad el-Fenn, Marrakech in person for further details and booking.

Capacity is severely limited.

Special thanks to Rick Owens & Michele Lamy.
Thanks to the boutique of Mustapha Blaoue in Marrakech.

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Marrakech Biennale 4th Biennale - Surrender
29^th February - 4^th March 2012
An International gathering of performance, screening and debate

Higher Atlas (Exhibition): 29^th February - End of May 2012
Curated by Nadim Samman and Carson Chan

The Marrakech Biennale is pleased to announce the dates for the 4^th Edition of the Marrakech Biennale, 29^thFebruary- 4^th March with the Main Visual Arts Exhibitions running from the 29^th February - End of May.

Marrakech Biennale works to form cultural bridges and dialogues creating a forum for debate, free thinking and the exchange of ideas through contemporary Visual Art, Literature and Film. The opening 5 days will be titled Surrender and will consist of Performances, Debates, Talks and Screenings as well as the opening of the Main Visual Arts Exhibition.

For more information on the 4^th Edition of the Marrakech Biennale click here.

Update on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 12:18PM by [Matthew Stone]

-The relationship between body and culture is one of the varied between cultures. As Western artists, how do you intend to breach these differences in your performance in Marrakech?

We have approached this work with interconnection rather than cultural difference in mind. Whilst individual contemporary cultural ideas exist about the body and its representation, the physical bodily experience of our immersive performance for an audience within a functioning hammam is abstract and as yet undefined. We aren’t consciously remixing Morrocan culture, but beggining a genuine experiment within an exciting and unique context, both architecturally and environmentally. In the conversations we have had with Morrocans, we found that they drew conceptual parralels between our intentions for the performance and aspects of Sufi mysticism. I think we’d find something of our intention in every culture. The structure of the sound we are producing for the performance draws on what are essentially archaic ecstasy techniques, except we have replaced shamanic drum patterns with computer generated electronic tones.

Comments

[kewal kapoor]

In poetic quest of saint/poet etc Kabir ( Hindi Poet) he refer to " anhad nad" ( sound , instrument nad..) and also sufism there is this whole insistence on issue of " inner voice" i feel sir you are capable to reach to give us landscape and possible shape of this " inner voice" landscape of inner voice across culture..
thanks
kk