We want humans to meet. With Majula Drammeh and Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe

A conversation with Majula Drammeh and Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe, who presented at Konträr the performance installation WHAT IS ALREADY HERE?

Majula Drammeh is a performer, dancer, dramaturg and performance maker based in Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden with a focus on interactive, participatory immersive work within the fields of dance and performance as well as somatic practices. Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe is an artist and storyteller from Lubumbashi, working across theatre, film, photography, installation, curation, and writing.

Together, they created WHAT IS ALREADY HERE?, an Afrofuturist performance installation set in a world where humans have become humanoids, governed by a digital operating system called Virtus. The audience enters a space where time is experienced differently — a state in which sound, movement, speech, and image flow together, shaped by the themes of the work, by encounters along the way, and by what emerges through being together.

Rooted in African philosophy and ritual traditions, the work searches for cracks in the system, where the human pulse continues to beat beneath the code.

The live soundscape is composed and performed on stage by Franck Moka, whose role in the piece also emerges in the conversation.