The project — SAWT (Voice)  

SAWT (“voice” in Arabic) is a research-creation project investigating oral memory, the Moroccan diaspora and feminine traditions of resistance through the legacy of Aïta. Drawing on a personal trajectory between Morocco and Italy, Wissal examines how voices migrate, transform and continue to carry stories of struggle, freedom and belonging. The project looks to the chikhat — women poets and singers who have long borne collective memory — and seeks to stage a dialogue between ancestral songs and contemporary diasporic voices, aiming to produce new forms of oral poetry, transmission and performance.

The workshop — Imperceptible  

Imperceptible is a workshop on voice, memory and an anthology of intimate histories. What does it mean to remember a sound or a voice? How do such memories surface, and why do some remain indelibly imprinted? How can art cultivate a deeper relationship with our sensory memory and translate it into other expressive forms? Through listening, speaking, movement and collective experimentation, Imperceptible probes the mechanics of sensory memory, our relationship to these invisible archives, and how they can seed new relational and performative forms, blurring boundaries of time and space. The workshop aims to surface a constellation of personal narratives, sonic memories and sensitive traces to compose a collective piece — an orchestra of stories operating at once imperceptible and profoundly concrete.