Afrovibes: Untitled 14 KM

Name: Afrovibes: Untitled 14 KM - Youness Atbane (MA)
Start: 2025-10-10T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Youness Atbane (MA)

Fri 10 Oct ’25 20:00

A multimedia installation and performance about the definition of African-Arab identity in the world of modern art.

Fri 10 Oct ’25

20:00

Fri 10 Oct ’25

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

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How is African-Arab contemporary art seen in the Western world? This question is at the heart of the living art installation and theatre performance Untitled 14 KM.

In Untitled 14 KM an Arab-Andalusian poet, a modern art museum director, an African curator and a contemporary artist try to set up an exhibition of modern art.

This collaboration gives rise to negotiations, conflicts, awkwardness, funny moments but, above all, questions about the definition of the African-Arab identity nowadays in the world of modern art. Artist Youness Atbane and the performers portray this in a multimedia performance with visual art, theatre, fashion, dance, spoken word and music.

Language: English
Duration: 70 mins.
Note: this performance contains violent sounds and flickering lights

Part of

Afrovibes Festival 2025

Credits

concept & directorship Youness Atbane performers Aziz Nadif, Youness Atbane, Kamal Adissa, Anna Weissenfels, Hanne van Dyck singer Aziz Nadif sound creation Zouheir Atbane productionmanager Henri Jules Julien installation Rachid Latouri en Collectif Pixylone

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About Youness Atbane

Youness Atbane developed his performance and visual art in France, Morocco, Belgium and Spain including the Master performing art program EX E.R.CE08 at the CCN of Montpelier and a master's degree in art -literature and museology- at the University of Nice. Now he lives and works between Casablanca and Berlin.

His art consists of live performances that let reflect and culminate in an installation and photography and drawing. In them he incorporates criticism of art, its actors and geopolitics. His work explores, entertains, reasons and narrates.

Previous year Youness performed The Waterproofed Artist during Afrovibes. His installations and performances exhibited at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Ostrale Biennale in Dresden and most recently Headland Center for the Arts in San Francisco and the British Museum & Mucem in Marsseille.