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WHEN ZIYARAT AND LONDON'S VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM SAID ARABISE ME
It was 26th August 2006. Many Londoners were leaving the city to celebrate the summer's last bank holiday weekend. Others - at least 3000 of them - were getting ready to cross the grand revolving threshold of the Victoria and Albert Museum for a ‘Friday Late' evening of Arab art, performance and entertainment. A significant proportion of these visitors wanted to enjoy an interactive event which would connect them to the North African and Middle Eastern parts of their own identities. The rest must have been curious to explore something less familiar to them - a dynamic and multi layered culture usually obscured by media stereotypes and misrepresentation.
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MORE THAN CAMELS AND SAND: NOMADIC ART ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN
What the Arab world needs today is a new language and new media to create a new image, to question Arab identity. Show this in the West and they will understand there is more to the contemporary Arab than camels and sand.
Moroccan video artists and film makers Abdelaziz Taleb (1973) and Abdellatif Benfaidoul (1974) have known each other since they were young. Both grew up in the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, both went on to pursue a career in visual arts, both ended up living and working in Europe, Taleb in Germany, Benfaidoul in the Netherlands. In 2002 they set up Videokaravaan, a nomadic arts project aimed to diversify the Western perspective of art from the Arab world, as well as to stimulate makers in the South to create images in which they recognise themselves. Key words: dialogue and exchange.
Discover the portrait of Moroccan video artists and film makers Abdelaziz Taleb and Abdellatif Benfaidoul.