Women of the World Festival is happening in Istanbul this weekend. See the full programme here: www.wowistanbul.org/en
MAYK invited me to create a short film that will be screened as part of the festival, alongside Kitchen Alba, a new work by the quite wonderful Jo Bannon, at 9.55am on Friday 5 March.
Here are some words about the piece…
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by Laila Diallo
‘I have been thinking about the movement of the everyday as it unfolds, out of view, inside the rows of Victorian terrace houses in the neighbourhood where I live. I have been wondering whether in other homes, like in ours, kitchen floors from time to time become dance floors, with everyday gestures sliding from the functional into something other, for the space of a song or two; dances danced between stove and table, big dances for our small rooms.
This is a dance made to the scale of our kitchen.
It knows the room well. It carries the repetition of its days. None really ever the same.
It remembers moments.
It holds some of the light, some of the weight, some of the landscape.
This is a dance made to the scale of our kitchen, tipping from the everyday into something else, carrying traces of dances danced before and inviting new ones.
Maybe this dance feels like a song.
I’d like that.’
- Laila
