Film Within A Landscape
A panel exploring different audiovisual approaches which refer to coastal and maritime landscapes to touch upon phenomena and issues of ecology, modernization and colonisation set in the Moroccan context. These artistic film practices and researches at the intersection of history and memory, arts and science, come into a closer focus during the panel.
Live conversation with Jessica El Mal, Elodie Sacher, Younes El Hossaini, and Anaïs Elboujdaïni.
MENA Film Festival 2022
Care and opacity: decolonial image-making practices and post?racial impossibilities
As part of a CIVIS International Workshop, I presented three of my recent projects in how they relate to decolonial practices, Moroccan pasts, presents, and futures, fragmentation, and the racialized body in western spaces. The talk asked questions, wandered, and offered frameworks to think collectively of memory, archives, rituals, and language, through the lens of care and opacity.
Decolonising archives across communities at documenta 15 (with invited guest Subversive Film)
lumbung artist LE 18 invited Rim Mejdi and me for the talk Decolonizing Archives Across Communities. As part of our project towards a manifesto to decolonize the Moroccan archives, we invited Subversive Film to discuss our experiences and approaches to processes of decolonizing archives.
Decolonizing the Moroccan Archive
A conversation with Rim Mejdi around the decolonization of the Moroccan archives. Published on Screen Worlds, a European Research Council-funded project based at SOAS University of London, this conversation is the beginning of a project for a collective decolonial manifesto, which seeds were first planted within the Decolonising archives programme, at the 2021 Ch[a]rita Festival, held in Marrakech, Morocco.
Framer Framed Decolonial Futures Workshop Series: The Womb Republic - How to Rebirth
Artist talk around my practice and how it relates to decolonial futures.
Artist talk for Agar Red Gold (A.MAL collective)
A.MAL is an art and research initiative exploring ecology, migration and globalization through speculative art and research projects.
Grounds for Concern panel discussion
A panel discussion around the key themes of Jessica El Mal’s project Grounds for Concern, which questions the concept of land ownership and the true boundaries that are enforced by human-made borders. Jessica El Mal, curator Soukaina Aboulaoula, anthropologist Alice Elliott, cartographer Pablo de Soto, and I spoke of Strait of Gibraltar, border surveillance, the irony of ‘invasive’ spaces, and the human aspects of migration, grounding our conversations and work in decolonial geographies and histories.
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
Between Reminiscence and Reactivation: a collective reflection
Between Reminiscence and Reactivation is a conversation framed around artists whose work with archival materials has led to cross-generational reflections, and exchange of new ideas. The four participants – with practices ranging across writing, film exhibition, moving image and performance – will outline their experience working with archives, and focus on how they share their contemporary perspectives on these materials.
Live conversation with Courtney Stephens, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Sido Lansari, and Myriam Mouflih.
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021
Decolonizing the archive: state of the art of the Moroccan collections
A conversation with Jamaa Baida, Thierry Ruf, and Rim Mejdi, opening a reflection around the notions of appropriation/reappropriation, private/collective/national property of both colonial and postcolonial archives as well as issues of public access, interpretation and processes of decolonising our history(ies) and memory(ies).
“If a tree falls in a forest”, Untitled curatorial duo, Les rencontres d’Arles, and Institut Français
Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival 2020
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2020
THE EMBODIED BORDER: WORDS FOR POLITICAL FICTION
Participants: political geographer Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, dancer and choreographer Bolewa Sabourin, theater researcher Najla Nakhlé-Cerruti, and architect and editor Léopold Lambert
EUROPE FACING POPULISM
Interdisciplinary conference hosted by Reid Hall, the Columbia University Paris Global Center - 10.02-03.2017
Moderation of a panel on Arts and Social Sciences Facing Populism. Participants: activist and journalist Vasyl Cherepanyn, historian Marion Fontaine, and dramaturge and activist Igor Stokfiszewski