Residencies

• 08.12 > 17.12.2025

The skin of the earth is seam­less. The sea can­not be fen­ced, el mar does not stop at borders.

- Borderlands/​The New mes­ti­za, Gloria Anzaldua

Our pro­ject is a per­so­nal jour­ney of recon­nec­ti­on with Morocco, explo­ring ten­si­ons bet­ween heri­ta­ge, iden­ti­ty, belonging/​estrangement and deco­lo­ni­sa­ti­on. Growing up in Europe with Moroccan roots, we ask if it’s pos­si­ble to reclaim a coun­try we didn’t grow up in, and how to navi­ga­te bet­ween iden­ti­ty and approp­ri­a­ti­on. The mate­ri­al will be our indi­vi­du­al jour­neys in Morocco, docu­men­ted through video, wri­tings, hap­pe­nings and let­ters to each other. Yasmine tra­vels with her father through lan­gu­a­ge, memo­ry and queer­ness, whi­le Myra jour­neys with her sis­ter as a ritu­al of grief and discovery.

We seek to bring sen­so­ri­a­li­ty of the lands­ca­pes we tra­vel through on sta­ge, mer­ge with them and let them sha­pe the dra­ma­tur­gy. With Mitzi Beesemer, the sound­ar­tist, we enhan­ce sen­so­ry tex­tu­res of lands­ca­pes through sound.

“Back to Marrakech. Listening to clas­sic arab songs on the radio on the way home. My dad sings along. I clap. I used to hate the­se songs when I was a kid. Now it’s ​“cool”, it’s part of the fol­klo­re. Now, this is how I roman­ti­ci­se this trip. I want to lis­ten more to arab songs. I recor­ded the song and my dad sin­ging along. A moment of joy I wan­ted to hold on.”

- From Yasmine’s tra­vel journal