By Ariane Königshof & Amjad Al-Mestarihy

   

The current situation seems to feel uncertain for people all over the world and the nescience of what is going on has impact on our souls. Forced to live in distance: Physical distance is a parameter of how close objects or / and humans get to each other - still a physical touch can be distant because the real touch might be much more inside, not touchable by physical process. In our digital project the main focus of senses are audio and visual structures - still we focus on touch in different layers.
We are collecting ordinary sounds from people all over the world who record theirselves creating a sound with an object from home. Amjad mixes a special rhythm / music out of the different sounds which Ariane visualizes by a stop motion video out of paintings.

mamarrat is arabic and means corridors: A corridor as a long path which is usually pretty narrow implicates physical distance in lenghts but propinquity in width. Light by the end of the tunnel is an inner relief whereas the closeness of width can effect trepidation. As a corridor with plenty of doors it is a place of decisions. Also people can enter and cross your way - connecting people from different paths to overcome distance.
Clapping 30 seconds in a defined tempo but individual rhythm is kind of creating a ritual. Ritual can be seen as a healing process in times of crisis, no matter if personal or global. It might help to cope with a situation of nescience. 

The visual part copes with that feeling of nescience, loosing our body, trying to formate all segements together again. Analyzing the space inbetween - the actual distance, corridors, trying to catch our own limbs to feel balanced again - a continous search for a special rhythm / balance in life.