CAFFEINE forms part of an ongoing research inquiry into masculinity, spatial memory, and postcolonial social architecture within Algerian café culture (el kahwa).

Developed through performance-based and autobiographical research methodologies, the work examines cafés as socially coded environments structured by tacit rules of visibility, access, and belonging. Within these spaces, masculinity is not merely represented but rehearsed - produced through gesture, posture, silence, and repetition.

Staged within a constructed ‘ghost café,’ the performance operates as an embodied research environment. Sound, movement, and spatial arrangement function as analytic tools, enabling an exploration of how memory, migration, and inherited social scripts shape contemporary male identity.

Rather than offering narrative resolution, CAFFEINE positions performance as a method of inquiry - a site where personal memory intersects with collective habitus, and where postcolonial imaginaries become materially perceptible.