Tricks To Self(censor)
Yasmine van Maasakker
Anonymous shadows play out the tricks that three Moroccan creatives have developed to go around (self)censorship. In their case, the censorship comes from their political environment. But if you look closer, censorship is found in different forms around us. It's created by an element of fear and control, it might come from our personal insecurities, social expectations, religious rules, political or even safety reasons. You could use these tricks to overcome them.
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Starting with the question ‘where do you feel or sense coloniality touching you’ made me look back on the period where I was living in Morocco four years ago, interning as a graphic designer. All the creative people I met and became friends with, experienced and communicated different issues that were unfamiliar to me as a creative. The hoops they had to jump through, small or big, all seemed unnecessarily difficult and very unfamiliar to me. But at the same time, these creatives seemed to inspire me with their ethics, positive attitude and particular style and artistic visions.
My research derived from the question if there should be more accessible platforms for Moroccan creatives to freely disperse their work, which led to analysing the artistic infrastructure in which these platforms are placed. But to finally find the most important issue to address I had to look into the social and political environment. Who and what is shaping the Moroccan artistic infrastructure?
The artistic infrastructure itself seemed to be far different to the one I’m moving around in, I discovered. And made me wonder how a lack of an artistic infrastructure could have a positive effect in the creative sector. What can we learn from Moroccan creatives?
What is the positive effect of the censorship that is uphold by the monarchy and its monarchists which shapes not only the work of Moroccan creatives but also their minds?
Tricks To Self(censor)
Yasmine van Maasakker
Anonymous shadows play out the tricks that three Moroccan creatives have developed to go around (self)censorship. In their case, the censorship comes from their political environment. But if you look closer, censorship is found in different forms around us. It's created by an element of fear and control, it might come from our personal insecurities, social expectations, religious rules, political or even safety reasons. You could use these tricks to overcome them.
[ videos and publication soon available ]
Starting with the question ‘where do you feel or sense coloniality touching you’ made me look back on the period where I was living in Morocco four years ago, interning as a graphic designer. All the creative people I met and became friends with, experienced and communicated different issues that were unfamiliar to me as a creative. The hoops they had to jump through, small or big, all seemed unnecessarily difficult and very unfamiliar to me. But at the same time, these creatives seemed to inspire me with their ethics, positive attitude and particular style and artistic visions.
My research derived from the question if there should be more accessible platforms for Moroccan creatives to freely disperse their work, which led to analysing the artistic infrastructure in which these platforms are placed. But to finally find the most important issue to address I had to look into the social and political environment. Who and what is shaping the Moroccan artistic infrastructure?
The artistic infrastructure itself seemed to be far different to the one I’m moving around in, I discovered. And made me wonder how a lack of an artistic infrastructure could have a positive effect in the creative sector. What can we learn from Moroccan creatives?
What is the positive effect of the censorship that is uphold by the monarchy and its monarchists which shapes not only the work of Moroccan creatives but also their minds?
