Exhibition and Program by Gilles Aubry co-curated by LE 18, with Aladin Borioli, Ali Faiq, Dounia Fikri, Laurent Güdel, Lina Laraki, Noura L’Kebir, Abderrahim Nidalha, Abdeljalil Saouli, Romain Simenel.
16.3.2018 to 14.4.2018, opening 16-03-2018, 7pm.
LE 18, derb el ferrane, Marrakech www.le18marrakech.com
Starting from Gilles Aubry’s researches on sound and listening, Communism of Waves is an artistic project that explores our environment’s sonic and vibrant dimensions — from animal, vegetal, and mineral voices, to ritual and musical practices, in addition to technological and spiritual waves. Developed with LE 18 in collaboration with artists Ali Faiq, Dounia Fikri, Lina Laraki, Abderrahim Nidhala and Abdeljalil Saouli, the project comes to life through an exhibition and a public program. The exhibition presents four art installations focusing on specific forms of interaction between humans and environmental voices, exploring new territories of post-natural speculation.
Meanwhile, the public program extends the trans-disciplinary approach of the exhibition with presentations by guest speakers from various fields (ethnology, paleontology, performance and music). They will share their knowledge and practices with the audience, proposing new perspectives on shared listening, history and belonging.
Taking radio as a model for investigating new forms of wireless and interspecies communication, Communism of Waves comes as an attempt to challenge the creeds of modernity and rethink the relationships between nature, culture and technology. Most importantly, it stresses the need to re-imagine our sense of collectivity.
The exhibition presents a series of collaborative works developed by Aubry and five Moroccan artists,
using a variety of mediums and techniques, such as analog film, video and photography, drawing, stitching and sound. The audio-visual installation Gorge, conceived with Lina Laraki, is an exploration of the many real and imaginary voices that resonate inside the Taghia canyon in the South-Atlas mountains. Becoming Goat, developed with Abdeljalil Saouli, attempts to render the auditory perspective of a grazing goat, and Construction d’un Corps, a collaboration with Dounia Fikri, subjectively documents the transformation of a young man’s body into a human-animal assemblage for the Bilmawen ritual in Aglou. Salam Godzilla, conceived with Abderrahim Nidalha and Ali Faiq, revisits the 1960 Agadir earthquake from a local ontological perspective, combining historical, visual, seismic and musical data into a geo-fictional installation. Dounia Fikri’s photographic documentation of wild rave parties complement this ensemble, where bodies merge through sound with technology and the environment.
Views of the exhibition and accompanying program
