Resonances of a Palm Grove, walk and workshop with Rim Mejdi
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Building on her multi-disciplinary research into the Marrakech Palm Grove, and in particular coming back to her work The Palm Grove Testimony, Rim Mejdi leads a walk and workshop that opens a conversation on the uneven political economy of this site of deep affect and its landscape. Together, we will reflect on listening as an act of witnessing the palmgrove’s multiple timelines, both historical and those yet to come.
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Rim Mejdi is a Moroccan filmmaker, theatre director, and curator based in Marrakech. From photography to performance to cinema, she maps intimacy, the body, and its torments through an exploration of coming of age and transitional moments of adolescence. She is equally interested in nature and in the urban and peri-urban spaces of Marrakech and its surroundings, approached as body-territories bearing the collective and memorial ruptures caused by capitalist hegemony as manifested through tourism, gentrification, and extractivism. She has been part of several collectives, including QANAT, and she works as a curator for the Dar Bellarj Foundation since 2019.