Singing Maps and Underlying Melodies

Kuratiert von Clara Meister in Zusammenarbeit mit S.T.I.F.F. Die Performances wurden unterstützt und ko-produziert von Kamarstudios Marokko und Aniko Boehler.

Im Auftrag der Marrakesch Biennale als Teil der Hauptausstellung.
25. - 28. Februar 2014 an verschiedenen Orten der Medina.
The performative project invited visitors into the city and connected the different venues of the Biennale by introducing a variety of Moroccan music. The music embraced different styles and languages acting as audible signs placed on the route, animating intersections and side roads to navigate through Marrakech. The project suggested an alternative mapping of the city, offering up a unique path along and beside the routes of the Biennial as it played with different methods of orientation, such as memory, narrative, and experience. This sensory form of navigation was supported by a printed parallel map and poetic headings chalked on walls in areas where many streets have no names. It established an understanding of the territory through the abstract form of the map leading into the actual ambiance of the city. The drawings depicted in the map linked the playful descriptive fragments on the walls to merge with the visual experience on site.

(Aus der Projektbeschreibung der Veranstalter)