Invocation #1 – Marrakech, Morocco – Souffles: On Deep Listening and Active Reception
Marrakech
Thurs, 11am–9pm
Fri, 10am–7:30pm
The first Invocation of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 14 and 15. Titled Souffles: On Deep Listening and Active Reception, the Invocation focuses on the circularity as well as the precarity of breath, Gnawa music as a way of being, Sufi cultures, and listening as a practice of coexistence, as well as place- and space-making.
The gathering is conceived by the 36th Bienal’s conceptual team in collaboration with LE 18 and the Fondation Dar Bellarj, as part of their curatorial practices of exploring sound and music as channels of knowledge. The Invocation features Maalem Abdellah El Gourd, Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Ghassan El Hakim, Kenza Sefrioui, Laila Hida, Leila Bencharnia, Maha Elmadi, Mourad Belouadi, Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Taoufiq Izzediou.
Check out the summary program:
Nov 14, 2024, Thurs, LE 18
11am–12pm Introduction by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, poetry reading by Alya Sebti, followed by a collective listening session of poetry and guembri Maalem
12pm–1pm Qui est Ahmed Ben Draoui? Performative reading on fiction and representation of the origin by Laila Hida with Mourad Belouadi
3pm–4:30pm Lecture by Ghassan El Hakim on his research contextualizing the practice of Gnawa master Maalem Abdellah El Gourd
5pm–6pm Lecture performance by Simnikiwe Buhlungu on synthesis, intonation and looping
6:30pm–7pm Introduction and screening of the film La terre en transe by Taoufiq Izzediou
7:30pm–9pm Gnawa Again! Performance by Ghassan El Hakim with Gnawa master Maalem Abdellah El Gourd accompanied by multi instrumentalist Mourad Belouadi
Nov 15, 2024, Fri, LE 18 and Fondation Dar Bellarj
10am–11am Collective reading of Abdellatif Laâbi’s poems with Kenza Sefrioui [at LE 18]
11am–12pm Lecture performance by Kenza Sefrioui on the legacy of Souffles [at LE 18]
12pm–1pm Lecture by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa on the magazine Maghreb Art [at LE 18]
3pm–4:30pm Listening session by Leila Bencharnia [at LE 18]
5:30pm–6:30pm Opening speech by Maha Elmadi and video screening by Laila Hida [at Fondation Dar Bellarj]
6:30pm–7:30pm Hadra, final performance with Lalla Khala and the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj [at Fondation Dar Bellarj]
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Invocation #1 – Marrakech, Morocco
Souffles: On Deep Listening and Active Reception
Nov 14–15, 2024
free admission
LE 18
Thurs, 11am–9pm
Fri, 10am–4:30pm
Riad Laarouss, 18 Derb El Ferrane
Fondation Dar Bellarj
Fri, 5pm–7:30pm
9 Toualat Zaouiat lahdar
Marrakech, Morocco