Artists video Art Exchange 2016

VIDEO ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS FROM MOROCCO ASIA EUROPE USA

Objective: This project aims to facilitate an inter-cultural art dialogue between artists of different cultures.

This video exchange project, touches several social and cultural points. Both local artists’ works will be shown to a foreign audience and with absence of the artists at the screenings, the video art becomes the initial system of reference in understanding it.

The artists’ absence will most likely put the audience into a position where they have to create their own meaning of the moving visuals that may, at first, seem like multiple layers of incoherent scenes because of social and cultural differences. This activity is designed for artists to generate social, cultural, even political questions about the video including the artistic process of making it.

VIDEO ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS FROM MOROCCO ASIA EUROPE USA

About the Curator: RM. 74 is an artist collective of visual, sound and performance artists that explores expansive range of subjects and contemporary media territories.

It produces multi-media installations, video, performances, and any media where almost always photography and digital media can be integrated. It aims to conflate play and praxis, even activism, to produce work of arts through various participatory models.

Born in 1986 in Tiznit (M), Said Rais lives and works in Tiznit (M).

Said Rais is an artist who graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan. His conceptual works based on mixed media: video, sound design, but also interactive installation, performance, photography and drawing. His work explores the relationship between art and technology, and questions the societal and ecological issues. He is particularly interested in «the interval that articulates the flow of daily events in a world of permanent equilibrium.»

He participated in various exhibitions and festivals national and international. Including ,in 2011: projection vidéo au Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine, dans le cadre des plates-formes Méditerranée Arts // Galerie Talmart, Paris (France). 2011, «BJCEM», 15ème biennale de la méditerranée, Thessalonique (Grèce). 2013: Festival Mundial Arte Pela Pas - Festival international d’art dans Uba, (Brésil), 2014: TAM Torrance Art Museum (Californie, USA) in the context of TIME is Love.7 -show 6 International Video art Program,Curated

By Kisito Assangni, to the Museum of New Art (Michigan, USA) in The Selfie Show,curated by Jef Bourgeau, and Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain- curator Mohamed Rachdi, (Rabat, Maroc) for the inaugural exhibition. Museum Municipal of Modern Art Mendoza (Argentine) and «Mastermind» gallery Venise Cadre, Casablanca (Morocco , 2015), Screening at Texas State University School of Art & Design, Texas.

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