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AfroCubism documentary
This short film provides an exclusive look at the making of the most eagerly anticipated release in world music. This collaboration of the finest musicians from Cuba and Mali features Eliades Ochoa, Bassekou Kouyate, Djelimady Tounkara, and Toumani Diabate, and sees the realisation of the project that inadvertently became the Buena Vista Social Club.
For more information go to
www.afrocubism.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AfroCubism/130219880341027
http://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/#AfroCubism
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Moorish sunscreen at Delia Shades
Geometric sunscreens in Moorish, moroccan tile, and Indian patterns by Delia Shades. Not so crazy about the contrast with the dark bricks but I think these are a beautiful and simple interior ornament.
Graphic design in Chefchaouen
Spanish graphic designer and multimedia artist Javier Reta's digital collages are inspired from the two years he spent living in Chefchaouen, in Morocco's northern Rif region.
This series is entitled "Into Jebl" (Into the mountain).
Javier's mixed-medias draw from his "devotion to these mountain woman and their hard work," his curiosity with Arabic typography as graphic elements and his personal photography.
His photography is also quite stunning, veering towards the abstract. See this series 'Blue & Orange.'
All images courtesy Javier Reta. For more of his work, visit his website or portfolio.
SPOTLIGHT - Hassan Hajjaj
“From the Fez to the camel, Hassan Hajjaj takes on the European stereotypes of the North African world and turns them into a visual celebration,” writes Projectbase. “His large canvasses sit comfortably in the post modern European art world. Restaurateur Mourad Mazouz, Blur (who incidentally used Hassan’s graphics for their official website) singer Damon Albarn and the Moroccan Consulate in London have all acquired some of Hassan’s pieces.
Hajjaj discovered that nobody had documented the street level graphic art of his native land. It set him off on a mission to elevate and educate people to the funky visual art of the souk with a twist. Having arrived in London from Larache in Morocco in his teens, he grew up amid the emerging club culture of London, UK, absorbing the music and styles of the reggae, hip hop and world music. Hajjaj’s visual sensibilities led him to enter the world of art and fashion. After running clubs and managing up and coming bands, he decided in 1984 to forge a solid relationship with the New York scene and subsequently the same year launched his own clothing and accessories label RAP.
A restless spirit, Hassan has chosen his imagery intuitively and ingeniously. The concepts he employs are seductively witty and playful while having a serious edge. Clearly a child of the pop art generation – his working methods encompass so many technics and fields – he engages personally and intensively in the time consuming process of designing and producing furniture (tables, lamps, stools, poufs), clothes (from customised patrol attendant overalls to babuch shoes, from funky-ed djellabahs to hats), photography (the youth of the medina a never ending source of inspiration, as well as photo-reportages commissioned by several magazines), and painting and printed canvas (always in a limited numbered edition). The concept remains the same, only the medium changes. All is expertly crafted and dishes out plenty of colourful humour.
Hassan Hajjaj – Graffix from the Souk
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For social systems at The Exchange, Hajjaj has produced a place where visitors can relax and chat. It might also be seen as a symbolic space, where life and art are momentarily integrated. Hajjaj brings together re-cycled North African objects with items and imagery readily found in and around Cornwall. The riot of colour, juxtaposition of patterns, and co-existence of old and new, Cornish and Moroccan creates a playful, feel-good environment. Here visitors can sit, read, relax, listen and talk.”
(Quoted from Projectbase)Hassan Hajjaj – Short Documentary
SHORT DOCUMENTARY: MOROCCAN ARTIST HASSAN HAJJAJ
Creative Africa Network in CAN TV explores the work of Hassan Hajjaj, a London based Moroccan designer and photographer.
PHOTOGRAPHY - VERONICA AZARYAN - 2ND PART
A review of Veronica Azaryan photography. She done a great quality process of Tunisian Architecture. She done it with a minimal sintesis. I apreciate her work cause it's really hard to process an African country in that way so abstract. It give new ways for design and process African Landscapes outside figurative & representative photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY - VERONICA AZARYAN - 1ST PART
A review of Veronica Azaryan photography. She done a great quality process of Tunisian Architecture. She done it with a minimal sintesis. I apreciate her work cause it's really hard to process an African country in that way so abstract. It give new ways for design and process African Landscapes outside figurative & representative photography.
MIGRANTAS | A VISUAL LANGUAGE OF MIGRATION
Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who have left their own country and now live in a new one. Mobility, migration and transculturality are not the exception in our world, but are instead becoming the rule. Nevertheless, migrant women and their experiences remain often invisible to the majority of our society. Migrantas works with issues of migration, identity and intercultural dialogue. Their work incorporates tools from the visual arts, graphic design and social sciences. Members of the collective (Marula Di Como, Florencia Young, Alejandra López, Irma Leinauer), mostly women who have themselves immigrated to Germany, develop the projects with other migrant women in a horizontal dialogue.
Migrantas meets with migrant women in their own collective spaces, organizations, community centers, cultural groups and organizes workshops to reflect together on issues of migration. Workshops are about visual expression of one’s own story. Women from very different national, cultural and social backgrounds, also with different residency statuses, exchange their experiences and express these in simple drawings.From drawing to pictogram and after a careful analysis of all the drawings from different workshops, migrantas calls key elements and common themes from the drawings and translates these central motifs visually and artistically into pictograms, a visual language and a language accessible to everyone.
Pictograms reflect implicity and strength of expression, they are the visual language of migrantas. Their simple, universally understandable images stir emotions: people from different backgrounds recognize themselves in the representations, while others gain new insights or modify their own perspectives. The results are better recognition and visibility.All migrantas projects end with an exhibition. The participants now see their drawings presented in public and experience public recognition of their voices and social participation. Visitors to the exhibition receive an opportunity to become better acquainted with the experiences of migrant women. Urban actions: Being a part of the city landscape One of migrantas’ major goals is to make the pictograms visible in public urban spaces.
They appear as posters where there is normally advertising, as projected digital animations on public screens, as flyers or postcards or shopping bags. Migrant womens’ perspectives and lived realities are taken out of the individual private space and made visible in the public space, thus creating an encounter which triggers reactions and self-reflection in the passerby.
http://www.migrantas.org
DREAM ACT - VISUAL ARTS FOR DIGNITY
Art and Activism Come Together to Make DREAM a Reality
visual activism has played an important role throughout history. From civil rights, labor unions, women’s rights, migrant’s rights and any other injustice we’ve fought for, artists have carried the voice of millions through a single poster, flier or composition of music. Through campaigns such as Alto Arizona, Wordstrike and Soundstrike, artists were able to engage creatively in fighting the unlawful treatment of immigrants. And even though much activism has moved online, the power of the poster is never going away—it’s.
More recently, we see artists coming out to support the DREAM Act. The proposed bill would allow undocumented youth with a clean criminal record who were brought to the country before the age of 16 the right to apply for permanent residency if they commit two years to the military or higher education.
Favianna Rodriguez
Julio Salgado
Santiago Uceda
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