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FFT Düsseldorf September 018

After “Songbook Oberbilk”, a series of audio portraits for the public space and for the smartphone, matthaei & konsorten have followed the Moroccan migration through other European cities. On the trail of trance rituals, they find stories of personal successes and social slights, Western longings and Moroccan transformations. Until finally, in Morocco itself, ancient healing rites and African musical traditions meet the fast market of world music. In an evening with performers from Casablanca and Brussels that is both concert and lecture-performance, Matthaei draws the audience into an oddball tale of possessed people and world travelers, ancient wars and healing intoxication. Migrating Djinn speak to us through their media of mutual appropriations & foreign images.

As part of the Alliance of International Production Houses sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Artistic direction Jörg Lukas Matthaei / Performance Abdellah M. Hassak, Jörg Lukas Matthaei, Yacine Sebti / Set design Dorothea Ronneburg / Music & audio design Abdellah M. Hassak / Interactive Video Design Yacine Sebti / Collaboration Research Morocco & Development Concept Judith Nika Pfeifer / Outside Eye Nicolas Galeazzi / Collaboration Staging & Production Mona Kakanj / Translation & Collaboration Research Morocco Saida Rochdani / Production Management Anna-Luella Zahner

 

Many thanks to the interview partners:

Tamesloht/Marrakech/Nador/Farkhane/Tangier: Abu Ali, Ahmed & Mohamed Baqbou with their Qraqbias & the Mqaddema; Hajar, Fatima, Abdeljalil Kodssi, Mohamed, as well as the doctor, teacher, shopkeepers, street vendors and others.

Brussels: Adnane “Boomshakalak”, actor; Mohamed Mesbahi, musician; Johan Leman, anthropologist & director of „Foyer”

Copenhagen: Peter Elsas, psychologist & documentary filmmaker; Mathew Carey & Inger Sjørslev, Anthropological Institute Københavns Universitet

Düsseldorf, Cologne: Karima Benbrahim, Information and Documentation Center for Anti-Racism Work; Martin Zillinger, University of Cologne, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities

& many more