AJJIT | Khadija El Kharraz Alami and Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner)

In AJJIT, performance artist Khadija and producer Reda shine light on the importance of coming together, commemoration, moving, music and the power of expressing emotions and sharing them. Showing and celebrating the beauty of carrying a complex identity in many dimensions and inviting it to be, is an attempt and a desire to make complexity tangible. The performance is an invitation to collectively re-animate our pre-capitalist bodies and reflect on and honor lives lost. Khadija and Reda practice different disciplines but share their rich and complex cultural identity and their love for it. For them, this manifests itself in the polyrhythms which can be found in among others different North African music genres. In Khadija's research on awakening pre-capitalist bodies, she invited Reda to delve into the different musical genres in Morocco. From Ahwach to Gnaoua, Ghaita, Chaabi and Issawa in search of stories, rhythms and movements that celebrate their complexities. Transforming and adapting these spiritual sounds and rhythms through his modular we encounter their definition of polyrhythms in electronic music. What can the function of the performing arts be in today's collapse of democracy, empires, capitalism beyond the reflection of the times we live in? Can the act and notion of togetherness, during the performance, build, contribute to actively speculate and remake the human body, body as a mass, in our collapsing societies?