“People’s Stories - Past & Present: Bridging the silenced and liminal spaces of African Imagery” is a multi-disciplinary art and culture project inviting archive researchers, artists and filmmakers to come together to interpret, rethink and re-appropriate the archive.
“People’s Stories - Past & Present: Bridging the silenced and liminal spaces of African Imagery” is a multi-disciplinary art and culture project inviting archive researchers, artists and filmmakers to come together to interpret, rethink and re-appropriate the archive.
Ancestral rituals passed down through generations engage our bodies and memories as a depository of our material and immaterial Archive. A multiplicity of forms including ritual and orality served as conveyors of heritage. Rituals, song, poetry, dance and folktales are all archives in their own right; carriers of collective memories and histories. This iteration of People’s Stories engages with various archival forms to complexify and expand methodologies that shift narratives. To appropriate heritage material, we draw on a diverse constellation of elements that keep alive local and regional forms of transmission. In collaboration with LE 18 and Dar Bellarj, our two Marrakech-based partner spaces, we take on these questions departing from a Moroccan vantage point, while engaging networks and connections beyond colonial borders.
The program includes public talks, performances and screenings.
With the support of TURN2 Fund of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media), the Ford Foundation and Fopica.
