Baçira - Fayçal Belattar & Eloi Calame
Baçira is a contemporary interdisciplinary project exploring spirituality in modern societies, between heritage and transformation. Inspired by the trans-Saharan salt and gold route, it reactivates its memory as a metaphor for movement, exchange, and inner journeys, questioning what remains sacred today.
Baçira is a contemporary interdisciplinary project exploring spirituality in modern societies, between heritage and transformation. Inspired by the trans-Saharan salt and gold route, it reactivates its memory as a metaphor for movement, exchange, and inner journeys, questioning what remains sacred today.
Developed between Algiers and Geneva, the project takes the form of a hybrid performance combining spoken word, acoustic instruments, and electronics. Clarinet, bass clarinet, and kora interact with digital textures in a space where tradition and contemporaneity merge.
Blending North African, sub-Saharan, and European influences, Baçira proposes an intercultural dialogue rooted in listening and complexity. More than a performance, it is an immersive experience reflecting on belief, doubt, and new forms of spirituality.
The project has already been presented in Switzerland, France, Algeria, and Côte d’Ivoire as part of the MASA Festival.
Fayçal Belattar: text, voice, kora
Eloi Calame: clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics
