Jokkoo Collective

Within the framework of the cycle of performances and conferences Colonial Memory II. Tuning in to the whispers, directed by Andrea Pacheco González and Yeison F. García López, the museum is programming a musical performance by Jokkoo Collective. 

Their artistic approach explores African ideas on temporality, seeking cyclical dynamics that flow like water and resist the Western linear view of time. Through a dialogue between the kora, the Ka drum, the clarinet, synthesisers, vocals and electronics, the group creates a space in which ancestral memory and contemporary intuition coexist to imagine the future. Inspired by Kenyan philosopher John Mbiti's notion of a present that already contains the near future, they listen to time as something that expands, contracts and returns in all directions. Drawing on previous works, such as Invisible Sounds and A Black Time, and rooted in Afro-Caribbean and West African sound traditions, they respond to Koyo Kouoh's words on "tuning in to the lowest frequencies, to the whispers" of repressed memories, stories and futures.