Bouchra Khalili
Doktorand
The Public Storyteller : mixed media synchronized dual film installation
Other contributions
- Bouchra Khalili
Summary, in English
The Public Storyteller is an artwork produced in 16mm film and video.
It brings back to Morocco the epic of Djellali Kamal - an anonymous North African undocumented worker in France - and his candidacy to 1974 French presidential election. The work stages a halqa, a centuries-old practice of public storytelling in Morocco, to people arranged in a circle. In this halqa, Djellali’s campaign is narrated by a storyteller in Marrakesh, implicitly forming a new circle linking the diaspora and North Africa.
It brings back to Morocco the epic of Djellali Kamal - an anonymous North African undocumented worker in France - and his candidacy to 1974 French presidential election. The work stages a halqa, a centuries-old practice of public storytelling in Morocco, to people arranged in a circle. In this halqa, Djellali’s campaign is narrated by a storyteller in Marrakesh, implicitly forming a new circle linking the diaspora and North Africa.
Avdelning/ar
- Konsthögskolan i Malmö
Publiceringsår
2024
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Konstnärligt arbete
Ämne
- Visual Arts
Aktiv
Published