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L'appartement 22
{{Short description, Collective art space in Rabat, Morocco L'appartement 22 is an independent, collaborative project founded by Abdellah Karroum and based in Rabat, Morocco. The first such space in Morocco, it has since inspired a number of artist-run spaces and collectives. From its first exhibition « JF_JH individualités » in October 2002, ''L'appartement 22'' has consistently featured challenging and exciting contemporary arts programming of international acclaim. Its artist residencies, workshops, lectures, symposia, film and video screenings, and exhibitions resonate in Rabat, throughout the country, and abroad. The art space function as a cooperative inspired by traditional systems when farmers collectively work on extraction of olive oil and its distribution allowing exchange and diversity and transfer of knowledge. In November 2007, Karroum announced that ''L'appartement 22'' would become the country's first cultural internet radio station R22.RADIOappartement22' ''L' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdellah Karroum
Abdullah may refer to: * Abdullah (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Abdullah, Kargı, Turkey, a village * Abdullah (film), ''Abdullah'' (film), a 1980 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Khan * ''Abdullah: The Final Witness'', a 2015 Pakistani drama film * Abdullah (band), an American metal band * Abdullah (horse) (1970–2000), a horse that competed in the sport of show jumping See also * Abdalla people, an ethnic group in Kenya * Abdollah (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the capital city of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra administrative region. Rabat is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the river Bou Regreg, opposite Salé, the city's main commuter town. Rabat was founded in the 12th century by Almohads. The city steadily grew but went into an extended period of decline following the collapse of the Almohads. In the 17th century Rabat became a haven for Barbary pirates. The French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912 and made Rabat its administrative center. Morocco achieved independence in 1955 and Rabat became its capital. Rabat, Temara, and Salé form a conurbation of over 1.8 million people. Silt-related problems have diminished Rabat's role as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Radio
Online radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, Internet radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means. It can either be used as a stand-alone device running through the Internet, or as a software running through a single computer. Internet radio is generally used to communicate and easily spread messages through the form of talk. It is distributed through a wireless communication network connected to a switch packet network (the internet) via a disclosed source. Internet radio involves streaming media, presenting listeners with a continuous stream of audio that typically cannot be paused or replayed, much like traditional broadcast media; in this respect, it is distinct from on-demand file serving. Internet radio is also distinct from podcasting, which involves downloading rather than streaming. Internet ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel ABDESSEMED
Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of artistic media, media, including animation, installation art, installation, performance art, performance, sculpture and video art, video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world. Biography Abdessemed was born in 1971 in Constantine, Algeria, Constantine, in eastern Algeria, to a Chaoui Berber family. He grew up in the area of the Aurès Mountains, and attended the in Batna, Algeria, Batna. He then studied at the in Algiers. He left in 1994. Between 1994 and 1999, Abdessemed attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon, in eastern central France. He then lived and worked in the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2000–2001 he was a resident artist at MoMA PS1, P.S.1 in New York. After spending some time in Berlin, he returned in 2004 to Paris. He is also a French citizen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doa Aly
Doa Aly (born 1976) is an Egyptian artist. Early life and education She was born in 1976, in Cairo, Egypt. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Cairo, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in fine arts and illustration in 2001. Career Aly's work includes illustration, painting, multimedia, and sculpture. Her work is inspired by "interest in aberrations of the human form, archaic literature, and classical dance." Her work has appeared in galleries in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Her first show of her paintings was ''Pixel Series'' at the Mashrabia Gallery in Cairo, one of Cairo's first independent galleries. Her first European solo exhibition was held in Paris, France, in 2007 at Gallery Kamel Mennour. Her work has appeared as part of shows and festivals in the Dakar Biennale in Senegal, the Tate Modern museum in London, and Turkey's Istanbul Biennial. She was an artist in residence at the Makan contemporary art space, in Amman, Jordan. Aly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamdi ATTIA
Hamdi ( ar, حمدي) is a masculine Arabic given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Hamdi Aslan (born 1967), Turkish footballer and coach * Hamdi Al Banbi (1935–2016), Egyptian engineer and politician * Hamdi Braa (born 1986), Tunisian basketball player * Hamdi Harbaoui, Tunisian footballer * Hamdi Kasraoui, Tunisian footballer * Hamdi Kayapınar (born 1979), Turkish serial killer * Hamdi Marzouki (born 1977), Tunisian footballer * Hamdi al-Pachachi (1886–1948), Iraqi politician * Hamdi Salihi (born 1984), Albanian footballer * Hamdi Ulukaya (born 1972), Turkish businessman and entrepreneur of Kurdish descent * Hamdy Wahiba, retired Egyptian military officer Middle name * Ahmet Hamdi Boyacıoğlu (1920–1998), Turkish judge * Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962), Turkish writer * Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910), Turkish archaeologist * Serpil Hamdi Tüzün, Turkish youth coach Surname * Baligh Hamdi (1932–1993), Egyptian composer * Emad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safaa Erruas
Safaa (or Safâa) Erruas, born in 1976 in Tétouan, is a Moroccan artist. Biography Safaa Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan, Morocco. After a year of higher education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tétouan, she changed her course of studies and opted for artistic training. She graduated from the in 1998. Her work, abstract and minimalist, is most often dominated by a single color, white, which symbolizes for her, immateriality, silence, fragility in drawings that also include sutures, cuts and seams, like unhealed wounds. She also includes pointed or sharp elements, such as needles, razor blades, knives, and thread. Career Erruas lives and works in Tétouan, and exhibits in Morocco, and since 1998, internationally. When she had finished her artistic studies and obtained her diploma, she participated in "Morocco time," an exhibition organized by Jean-Louis Froment, founder of the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. She then lived as an artist in residence for six m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum was ineligible for a Lebanese identity card and does not identify as Lebanese. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes. Hatoum studied graphic design at Beirut University College in Lebanon for two years and then began working at an advertising agency. Hatoum was displeased with the advertising work she produced. During a visit to London in 1975, the Lebanese Civil War broke out and Hatoum was forced into exile. She stayed in London, training at both the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art (University College, London) between the years 1975 and 1981. In the years since, "she has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdellah KARROUM
Abdullah may refer to: * Abdullah (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Abdullah, Kargı, Turkey, a village * Abdullah (film), ''Abdullah'' (film), a 1980 Bollywood film directed by Sanjay Khan * ''Abdullah: The Final Witness'', a 2015 Pakistani drama film * Abdullah (band), an American metal band * Abdullah (horse) (1970–2000), a horse that competed in the sport of show jumping See also * Abdalla people, an ethnic group in Kenya * Abdollah (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni MUNTADAS
Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is a postconceptual multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. His work often addresses social, political and communications issues through different media: such as photography, video, text and image publications, the Internet, and multi-media installations. Artwork From a critical perspective, his work addresses social, political, and communications issues from all around the world, such as the relationship between public and private space within specific social frameworks, and investigates channels of information, and the ways they may be used to censor or promulgate ideas. Following this line, he coined the terms ''media landscape'' – to allude the "ever-expanding presence" of mass media, advertising and audiovisual material in the public space – and "critical subjectivity" – to refer to the critical modes of perception, thought, and subject configuration. These concepts are key to understand his artistic proposal. His proje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
