



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. 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 creates 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.
Trigger warning: this performance contains violent sounds and flickering lights.
This performance is part of the Afrovibes Festival. This annual festival brings dance, theatre and music performances by makers from Africa and the African diaspora to the Netherlands and brings them together. They give shape to current questions that are alive there and with us and have a unique vision on them. This year's theme is heritage. The makers show how they experience the current zeitgeist and their cultural heritage. They wonder what we can learn from the past about courage, ethics, collective strength. And about the tension between old African rituals and modern greed. What do we leave behind for the generations after us?

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