3rd AiM International Biennale Festival
Marrakech, Morocco
currated by Abdellah Karroum
19 Nov 2009 - 19 Jan 2010

NaoKo creates site sensitive work in Marrakech. Part one of three parts is presented as a sound installation.

By looking into Gnawa music – its history, the musicians, the places the music has developed and its place in contemporary society - her process based work provokes questions about identity, ownership and globalization through social reflections.

In Entry, she uses the narration transforming verbal documentation into poetic and rhythmic language, which she decided deliberately neither to have it translated nor use the languages commonly spoken in Morocco to empathise the notion of alienation. The piece finishes with the music which was created by adding some elements onto a simple bass line of Gnawa music which was taken (stolen with a permission) during her visit in Marrakech.