School of Casablanca Public Series October–December 2022

Overview

The School of Casablanca presents a series of public workshops, meetings, lectures, study days and walks in Casablanca, and online via live stream, to conclude its cycle of research residencies.

With the participation of diverse and prominent figures from the world of art and culture, School of Casablanca residents will engage with the local community from October to December 2022 to discuss key insights and experiences from their research and residencies.

Live streams

This public series takes place in Casablanca and will include two live streams that can be accessed for free online.

Study Day – Maghreb Art: A Patrimonial Counter-Model?
With a presentation by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa and Gilles Aubry, followed by an intervention by Laura U. Marks

Thursday, 10 November 2022
3:00 pm–9:30 pm (Morocco local time: GMT +1)
@L’École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Casablanca
Language: French
On-site and Zoom live streaming

The study day will begin with a presentation by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa with inclusions by Gilles Aubry and an intervention by Laura U. Marks.
Lakrissa proposes to interrogate Maghreb Art through a plurality of voices and practices embodied by the magazine’s main theorists and artists. Her objective is to understand the magazine’s role in the structuring of a new field of knowledge between artistic and pedagogical experimentation, anthropology, material culture and art history as well as question, among other things, its critical legacy.

Lecture Series – Integration
A multi-part presentation by Céline Condorelli and guests

Wednesday, 23 November 2022
10:00 am–1:00 pm (Morocco local time: GMT +1)
@L’École Supérieure des beaux-arts de Casablanca
Language: French
On-site and Zoom live streaming

Céline Condorelli will conduct a series of readings of a carpet from the Haouz region in the High Atlas made by an unknown woman. She has invited four experts, Ali Amahan, Rabii Alouani Bibi, Nadia Sabri and Samba Soumbounou to make this weaving speak.

Programme
For details of the full public series in Casablanca, please click here.

Live stream access

Study Day – Maghreb Art: A Patrimonial Counter-Model?
With a presentation by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa and Gilles Aubry, followed by an intervention by Laura U. Marks
Thursday, 10 November 2022
3:00 pm–9:30 pm (Morocco local time: GMT +1)
To register for the live stream, please click here

Lecture Series – Integration
A multi-part presentation by Céline Condorelli and guests
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
10:00 am–1:00 pm (Morocco local time: GMT +1)
To register for the live stream, please click here

Part of the School of Casablanca

The School of Casablanca is a collaborative project that takes as its starting point the legacy of the Casablanca Art School and its innovative pedagogical methods and exhibition strategies in 1960s Morocco.

The School of Casablanca is initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Marokko, ThinkArt and Zamaˆn Books & Curating.

The project includes research residencies, public programmes, a digital archive as well as an exhibition of historical works by the artists who were originally associated with the Casablanca Art School.

Launched in 2020, the initiative will continue through 2024.