Youssef El Idrissi

Youssef El Idrissi is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural activist and researcher, based in Casablanca, Morocco. He holds a BA in Philosophy of Communications and Public Spaces, and a MA in Cultural & Artistic Engineering. In 2018, he founded the NGO Kounaktif, which aims to democratize access to arts, and works at the intersection of ecology, technology and arts.

Within his artistic practice, he focuses on decolonization of imaginaries, indigenous mythologies, power relations, dynamics of the unconscious, interrelation between psyche and space, body and awareness, technology and living beings, errors (glitches) and symbiosis – and water bodies as solvent of power. He aims through his cultural and artistic work to connect the aesthetical and the political by deconstructing the norms, the socio-artistic barriers and old methods using alternative pedagogies, formats and interdisciplinary practice.