 'in/tangible cartographies – new arab video' was commisioned by World Wide Video Festival 2001, and especially curated by Jayce Salloum.
In a wild and woolly visual adventure through an assemblage of past clips, performative statements, and fragments from his collection, Bachiri roughly stitches together a catalogue of marvels. In a form of video writing he probes
the effects of form and content through a series of gestures, actions, tests, visual attacks, swipes, slides and interventions. Introducing emptiness into mass (a foundation of Islamic architecture), breathing as a primitive state of creation, and grounding the locus of life are some of the basic principles followed. Profound questions of history emerge when the Alice in Wonderland type exploration challenges infanticide, Arabicide, "the right of the sovereign and the law of the jungle."
– Jayce Salloum
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Co-produced by Heure Exquise and C.R.A.A.V.
Brahim Bachiri ° 1965 SidiBoubeker, Morocco
Lives and works in Morocco and France
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