Madrassa Collective (Morocco, Algeria, Palestine, Italy, Cameroon), LE 18 (Morocco), Port25 und SuperCopy / Jan-Philipp Possmann (Germany)
Bazar is an experimental residency and public programme. In May 2017, Madrassa Collective took over the Kiosk of Zeitraumexit transforming it into a bazar, a playful market of remixed images, sounds, bodies, and knowledge from Africa and the Middle East. For a week, the space featured performances, film screenings, live listening sound art sessions, electronic music, and debates. In cooperation with the involved artists, they explored and proposed newly commissioned performative works interrogating processes constructing and performing collective memory and cultural identity in increasingly (re)mixed societies. By finding inspiration from their local contexts, the presented works paid particular attention to the role played by copy, mimicry and détournement as vectors for the negotiated construction of socio-cultural belonging and as strategies of cultural resistance and artistically radical re-imagination.This project is part of round 2 of the International Coproduction Fund, year 2016-2017.