Where does the Rhinoceros Sleep Tonight?
Collaboration with Lisa Stewart, site-specific project of open workshops & creation of works for the Collective Museum of Casablanca produced by Atelier de l'Observatoire, Hay Hassani, Casablanca, Morocco.
[Art and Archaeology | Urban Geography | Prehistory]
For the project Where Did the Rhinoceros Sleep Tonight?, which was developed as part of the Musée Collectif de Casablanca, a temporary space was opened between the Casablanca neighborhoods of Hay Hassani and Oulfa, near the "Rhinoceros Cave." This shared space hosted a series of multidisciplinary workshops that aimed to collectively explore and imagine the figure of the rhinoceros. The project drew upon materials and narratives gathered from this significant site of Morocco’s ancient prehistory, which was discovered in the late 1970s and named after the remains of a North African rhinoceros found there.
The initiative provided the participants with the opportunity to reconsider their relationship to urban space through the lens of fiction, engaging in a creative process of reappropriating the city. Furthermore, it sought to forge a collective memory that linked Casablanca's prehistoric past with its present, which at the time was characterized by rapid urban expansion, housing crises, and social justice challenges.
The collective creation and narrative surrounding the rhinoceros evolved gradually throughout the project, with each participant contributing to a clearer understanding of the rhinoceros's character. These contributions helped to contextualize the figure of the rhinoceros within the contemporary landscape of Hay Hassani.
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