| New York 2020 ISPA Congress - Youness Atbane |
 Youness AtbanePerformance
Youness Atbane currently lives and works between Casablanca and Berlin. His artistic practice is based on a critical relationship to the fields of visual and performing art, its actors and its geopolitics. His practice consists of three areas: live performance as a space of reflection, installation making as an outcome of the performative act and photography and drawing as an archival tool. All three areas are interconnected and interdependent. The exploratory nature of his work, which brings together performative and narrative practices, shows both discursive and formal qualities. Atbane has exhibited his installations and performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the parallel project in the Venice Biennal in 2011, the Arab world institute in Paris, the Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Mohammed VI in Rabat, the Ostrale Biennal in Dresden, Headland Center for the Arts in San Francisco, MASS MoCA Museum in Massachusetts and the British Museum. His latest performance “Untitled 14 KM” which premiered in November 2019 at MUCEM in Marseille to critical acclaim will be presented at the 5th Arab Arts focus in Cairo in April 2020 prior to touring internationally. During the ISPA Congress he will perform an excerpt from “The Second Copy: 2045”, a conceptual performance featuring a documentary made in the year 2045, a moment at which political conflicts are projected to have changed the world to such a degree that the only remnants of art exist in the form of memories. Through a reflection on the dynamics of contemporary Moroccan art, the audience is invited into an ambiguous space between realism and fiction. Here language, movement and images no longer abide by individual logical systems, but are able to interact. The aim is to create a new and experimental environment through audience interaction. Thank you to D-CAF for their support of this program.
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