Atla(s)now | HIGHER ATLAS

PARALLEL PROGRAM / Atla(s)now

Date: ongoing since December 2011
Opening: Friday March 2, 16:30-19:00
Location: ESAV – Marrakech

The project, devised by Angelo Bellobono in collaboration with Aniko E. M. Boehler / morocco experience & projects and Alessandro Facente through a residential program. Atla(s)now entails a series of experimental artistic-didactic-training activities to support environmental education and the development of a sustainable local micro-economy on the basis of Angelo Bellobono’s artistic work and his knowledge as a ski coach.

Dar Toubkal – Mountain Propre Visitors & Research Centre which opened in Imlil on July 10th 2011 as well as the new Community centre/maison des associations newly established in Imlil, will act as a hubs for the residential programs and promote the construction of a platform bringing together educational structures and local communities, involving international and national artists to create a spread out museum, outdoors and in the homes of local populations.

The residential program will be inaugurated in January/February 2012 with the students from the ESAV / Ecole supérieure des arts visuels de Marrakech and will have the task of promoting project aims and objectives, including setting up of a ngo operated ski club & equipment rental for local children and the re-enforcing the capacities of the local ski instructors. The art works created in situ making exclusive use of the local workforce will be used & combined with the cultural offer to visitors, activating new micro-economies and providing the area with a spread out museum. It will include video, photography, paintings, design, graphic material, land art, environmental installations, made in part using refuse collected and traditional material revisited with contemporary approach. The outcome of the entire project, will be documented by photo, video, drawings, visuals diaries… This making of will also form a traveling exhibition.

The first exhibition will open during the Marrakech Biennale 2012 as part of the Official Parallel Projects.