What is already Here? is an Afrofuturist performance installation set in a world where humans have become humanoids, governed by a digital operating system called Virtus.
The audience enters a space where time is experienced differently — a state in which sound, movement, speech, and image flow together, shaped by the themes of the work, by encounters along the way, and by what emerges through being together.
Rebuilt anew for each location, the installation is created from recycled electronic waste — materials once extracted from African natural resources, used in our pursuit of comfort and constant connectivity, and later returned to the continent as waste. Rooted in African philosophy and ritual traditions, the work searches for cracks in the system, where the human pulse continues to beat beneath the code.
LANGUAGE: English & French
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- WITH AND BY
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Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe, Majula Drammeh & Franck Moka
- ART & DIRECTION
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Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe & Majula Drammeh
- SOUND & MUSIC
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Franck Moka
- LIGHT DESIGN
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Thabiso Kubheka Persson
- PRODUCTION
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Nya Rörelsen
- PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
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Robin Dingemans
- PHOTO
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Sanya Ghaderi
- WITH SUPPORT BY
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Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), Swedish arts grants committee, Swedish Arts Council, Skogen, French Institute of Lubumbashi , VIII Lubumbashi Biennale, Centre d'art Picha and Biasasa Centre d'art, Push-international performance arts festival & Vivo media arts center