YA MAYLA
Performance, 2023Performance at Gr’ambacht, Mechelen, Belgium, June 2023. Part of an ongoing project developed in residence at Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels.
The project explores language loss, translation and song, particularly in the Arab diaspora; and pays attention to the materiality and corporeality of voices. This performance was built from recordings of conversations about one song in particular, Ya Mayla Al Ghoussoune by Fairuz. Song lyrics are (mis)-translated and these translations, with all their idiosyncrasies, hesitations, inaccuracies and certainties, have their own poetry.