AiM International Biennale - Arts in Marrakech
AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition: Opening Thursday 19th - Monday 23rd November 2009. Arts in Marrakech. This festival was set up by Vanessa Branson and is organised through her team with Riad El Fenn in Marrakech.
This year Zamzam Riad has been added to the accomodation list and will be hosting two of the festival artists. People come from all over the world to visit this exciting festival in Marrakech. Below I have listed some information on the festival and a preliminary line up of who will be involved in the festival. These two yearly festivals are growing momentum and are great for the arts in Marrakech and as a promotion for Arts in Morocco and Moroccan artisits in the world.
This year's edition promises to be full of innovation, inspiration and intrigue. The program is more ambitious than 2007 with 5 days of discussions, readings, screenings and performances. AiM opens on the evening of November 19th at the Museum of Marrakech with the exhibition Articulating The Work and The Place curated by Abdellah Karroum, including newly commissioned works by Francis Alÿs, Loredana Longo, Seamus Farrell, Franck Bragigand, Faouzi Bensaidi & Yto Barrada. This exhibition will close on January 19th 2010. During the biennale opening celebrations, the acclaimed artist and filmmaker, Julian Schnabel, will discuss his life and work with Alan Yentob. The AiM biennale opening celebrations end on the evening of Monday 23rd November with a screening of Man On Wire and a discussion with the director James Marsh. There will also be an array of other talented writers, artists, performers and filmmakers showing and discussing the ideas behind their work. Click here for more information.
Third Edition, 2009
For the 3rd Edition of the AiM International Biennale the principal exhibition will be curated by Abdellah Karroum (L’appartement 22, Rabat) at the Museum of Marrakech. The literary programme will be organized by Simon Prosser (Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton & Penguin), Abdellah Taia (Author of Salvation Army, An Arab Melancholy & My Morocco) & Alexandra Pringle (Editor in Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing); and the cinema programme will be put together in partnership with ESAV, Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (the only School of Cinema & Visual Arts in North Africa) under the direction of Vincent Melilli, Alan Yentob (BBC Creative Director) and Stuart Comer (Curator of Film at the Tate Modern).
Over five days, the AiM Biennale will premiere works from Francis Alÿs, Yto Barrada and Loredana Longo. Attendees will also include acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Oscar winning film director John Boorman, Booker prize nominee Ahdaf Soueif, Turner-nominee Isaac Julien, Al Jazeera English presenter Rageh Omaar, BBC TV arts executive Alan Yentob and award-winning Moroccan film director Faouzi Bensaidi, among others.
Full programme coming soon.
A Short Selection of Events Planned for 2009:
JULIEN SCHNABEL IN CONVERSATION WITH ALAN YENTOB
EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF MARRAKECH, curated by Abdellah Karroum, from the 19th November 2009 to 19 January 2010, A PROPOSAL FOR ARTICULATING WORKS & PLACES: http://www.works-and-places.appartement22.com/
SYMPOSIUM AT Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (School of film & visual art), “Documentary film – a view of reality or how filmmakers impose their realities?”
DISCUSSION with Director James Marsh followed by a SCREENING of the Oscar-winning film 'Man On Wire'
PROJECTION AT THE ROYAL THEATRE, Isaac Julien will show his film 'Western Union: Small Boats' in the unfinished opera house.
LITERARY DISCUSSIONS featuring Ahdaf Soueif, Andrew O'Hagan, Abdellah Taia, Sanaa El Aji & Barbara Trapido.
STORIES OF ORDER & DISORDER created & directed by Julien Fisera & Laurent Berger http://www.storiesoforderanddisorder.com/
TAVERNA ESPECIAL, at Kssour Agafay produced by the SKETCH GALLERY FOUNDATION
TEA PARTY at Riad Magi, with music, poetry & a photographic exhibition organized by Maggie Perry
This year Zamzam Riad has been added to the accomodation list and will be hosting two of the festival artists. People come from all over the world to visit this exciting festival in Marrakech. Below I have listed some information on the festival and a preliminary line up of who will be involved in the festival. These two yearly festivals are growing momentum and are great for the arts in Marrakech and as a promotion for Arts in Morocco and Moroccan artisits in the world.
This year's edition promises to be full of innovation, inspiration and intrigue. The program is more ambitious than 2007 with 5 days of discussions, readings, screenings and performances. AiM opens on the evening of November 19th at the Museum of Marrakech with the exhibition Articulating The Work and The Place curated by Abdellah Karroum, including newly commissioned works by Francis Alÿs, Loredana Longo, Seamus Farrell, Franck Bragigand, Faouzi Bensaidi & Yto Barrada. This exhibition will close on January 19th 2010. During the biennale opening celebrations, the acclaimed artist and filmmaker, Julian Schnabel, will discuss his life and work with Alan Yentob. The AiM biennale opening celebrations end on the evening of Monday 23rd November with a screening of Man On Wire and a discussion with the director James Marsh. There will also be an array of other talented writers, artists, performers and filmmakers showing and discussing the ideas behind their work. Click here for more information.
Third Edition, 2009
For the 3rd Edition of the AiM International Biennale the principal exhibition will be curated by Abdellah Karroum (L’appartement 22, Rabat) at the Museum of Marrakech. The literary programme will be organized by Simon Prosser (Publishing Director, Hamish Hamilton & Penguin), Abdellah Taia (Author of Salvation Army, An Arab Melancholy & My Morocco) & Alexandra Pringle (Editor in Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing); and the cinema programme will be put together in partnership with ESAV, Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (the only School of Cinema & Visual Arts in North Africa) under the direction of Vincent Melilli, Alan Yentob (BBC Creative Director) and Stuart Comer (Curator of Film at the Tate Modern).
Over five days, the AiM Biennale will premiere works from Francis Alÿs, Yto Barrada and Loredana Longo. Attendees will also include acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Oscar winning film director John Boorman, Booker prize nominee Ahdaf Soueif, Turner-nominee Isaac Julien, Al Jazeera English presenter Rageh Omaar, BBC TV arts executive Alan Yentob and award-winning Moroccan film director Faouzi Bensaidi, among others.
Full programme coming soon.
A Short Selection of Events Planned for 2009:
JULIEN SCHNABEL IN CONVERSATION WITH ALAN YENTOB
EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF MARRAKECH, curated by Abdellah Karroum, from the 19th November 2009 to 19 January 2010, A PROPOSAL FOR ARTICULATING WORKS & PLACES: http://www.works-and-places.appartement22.com/
SYMPOSIUM AT Ecole Superieure des Arts Visuels (School of film & visual art), “Documentary film – a view of reality or how filmmakers impose their realities?”
DISCUSSION with Director James Marsh followed by a SCREENING of the Oscar-winning film 'Man On Wire'
PROJECTION AT THE ROYAL THEATRE, Isaac Julien will show his film 'Western Union: Small Boats' in the unfinished opera house.
LITERARY DISCUSSIONS featuring Ahdaf Soueif, Andrew O'Hagan, Abdellah Taia, Sanaa El Aji & Barbara Trapido.
STORIES OF ORDER & DISORDER created & directed by Julien Fisera & Laurent Berger http://www.storiesoforderanddisorder.com/
TAVERNA ESPECIAL, at Kssour Agafay produced by the SKETCH GALLERY FOUNDATION
TEA PARTY at Riad Magi, with music, poetry & a photographic exhibition organized by Maggie Perry
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