I worked with Le 18, which is a cultural center based out of a Riad in Marrakech, to develop a project for creating an intervention in public space. It's not a workshop, rather an initiation - an initiation for insitu installations in the public space of Marrakesh. But really, I work with the notion of the street, because although the public space is desired as a place of equality, a utopia, this is not the reality. Due to the complexities of society, and based on people’s background, class, gender etc., the question of who can really access public spaces is important. So the notion of the street is more interesting to me because it expresses something more real somehow, more of a living phenomena. Bringing people from different backgrounds to the street was the main aim of this project. We did an open call for artists, amateurs, or just anyone who wanted to come and work together on creating a street initiation. We gathered a great group for the two days over which the project took place.

On the first day, the group went to the waste land of Marrakesh where people throw away their rubbish. It's a public space between two big Boulevards, surrounded by many new buildings. Previously, it was a farm, an agricultural place with olive trees, palm trees and a lot of vegetables. But the owner sold it to the local authority. Now it's like an in-between space but at the same time intimate. We walked and talked to observe the site. We forgot where we were - we could have been in an ocean or in the wild.

Amongst the waste, we searched for items to collect. We found all kinds of broken artifacts from vegetables, old photographs and simple building materials to items with traditional symbolism or geometric forms. It was interesting to discuss along the way what this trash revealed about the city of Marrakesh. There was no predefined idea about what we going to do with the collected material. We returned to Le 18 to discuss and experiment with how these objects could become installations that would then be placed in the street. A series of works emerged collectively. On the second day, we went into the Medina and scouted locations to place the works, here, the street became our exhibition space.