What is already Here? is an Afrofuturist performance-installation that imagines a world where humans have become Humanoids, controlled by a digital operating system called the Virtus.

Amidst this dystopia, one neurologist in hiding, conducts secret experiments to “reset” a patient’s body and rediscover what it means to be human. Her underground laboratory — built from discarded electronics, wires, and broken machines — becomes a poetic site of resistance and fragile hope.

Drawing on African philosophical thought and ritual traditions, the work reclaims ancestral intelligence as a key to survival and reconnection. It fuses dance, spoken word, sound, video, and movement into a sensory landscape where science fiction meets spiritual memory.

The installation is constructed from materials that we take for granted in our daily quest for comfort and connection. It reuses electronic waste created from African natural resources, which is then brought back to the continent as waste. By transforming this waste into art, the work symbolically returns these materials to their users.

What is already Here? is a collective act aimed at reminding us that, even in the age of machines, the human pulse continues to beat beneath the code.

LANGUAGE: English & French