Tanger des Peintres: Grey Room to Casabarata

Site-Specific Performance
Opening event of Performing Tangier 2008
May 16 / Chellah Hotel / Tangier, Morocco

Art cannot reveal the truth about art without snatching it away again by turning the revelation into an artistic event.

-- Bourdieu
The Field of Cultural Production

Trailer introduction:

Begins with the mixing of the audience and ensemble / cuts to a preface in Darija featuring a Tanjawi painter adding layers to the canvass as past city images and past conference photos circulate on the screen / then giving way to the dramatic multi-media entry of the Burroughs' character / a postcolonial performative ceation of confrontation, dialogue, analysis, negotiation.

Performance fundamentals:

1. Audience as an essential extension of the performance
2. Screening Tangier throughout history: resisting nostalgia and fixity, forever on the move
3. Re-writing finished texts employing the Beat Generation's “cut-up technique”

Artistic statement:

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Artistic ensemble:

General Director
Khalid Amine

Artistic Directors & Light Designers
Mustapha Chaouki / Mouhssin Zaroual

Music
Nabil Akbib / Mohammed Mrouji

Reproduction of Tangier’s Paintings
Mohamed Kerrach / Adil Kerrach / Sidi Mohammed El Yamlahi Ouazzani

Photo Design
George F. Roberson / "Yiqing" Cheng Li

Actors
Soumaya Amghar / Nadia Khoumbarek
Badreddin Charab / Mohamed Zin / Abdelillah Fouad

Visual Documentation
"Yiqing" Cheng Li
Abdelaziz Tabit Bensliman / Mustapha Hilal Soussi

Secretariat
Abdellatif Bakkali / Said Salah / Said Allouch

SPECIAL THANKS:
PRINCE CLAUS FUND FOR CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, THE NETHERLANDS
EDITION TINGIS, TANGIER, MOROCCO


*** This clip is only a trailer -- a more complete version of this event is under preparation.