HAJUSOM & VIKTOR MAREK / CFRAV & PATRICK KABRÉ, HAMBURG / OUAGADOUGOU: ALLER ET RETOUR

They stormed the Assemblée Nationale in Ouagadougou – Dictator Campaoré was deposed after 27 years – democratic elections took place! An African Spring in Burkina Faso? This awakening in the country starkly contrasts with people’s escape into the so-called ‘paradise’ of Europe. ALLER ET RETOUR is a politically relevant trans-continental collaboration: holding the future of their country in their hands, young Burkinabe artists, who are fighting back against (post-) colonial regimes and delivering new concepts of identity and new African thought, meet Hajusom performers with their own experience of migration, as well as their struggle for recognition in the supposed paradise of Germany. What do they think? Where can they break out? What are their desires and projections? ALLER ET RETOUR is a shared manifesto for freedom of movement, with revolutionary esprit, establishing art as fuel that crosses boundaries. Hajusom’s house musician Viktor Marek lays down the groove with singer and guitarist Patrick Kabré.