Nia Fekri
FILM & MOVING IMAGE // WRITING & PUBLICATIONS // PERFORMANCE
Mother's Apricot Compote
2020, Digital Video, 23 minutes and 35 seconds
A fragmentary narrative of two women whose lives are distant from each other yet hold traces of one another. This film conjures the ghosts that hover over the day-to-day lives of these two women; it is a rumination on the experience of the immigrant within and without the diaspora and the ways in which personal/familial memory seeps through the surface of every day life.
Sound in collaboration with Jamie Turner and SubPhonics.
The Windows Talk On A Long Afternoon
Digital Video, 15 minutes
A coffee table hosts a conversation between two friends as the open window lets in the street below.
Waiting for someone that never arrives, a woman walks through the streets taking on the city's rhythm.
A daydreaming body seems dead until it moves.
NIGHT AT THE CHAPEL
Performance event and exhibition coinciding with Nia's exhibition in the Broadcaster notice boards as part of the show A Year of Nostalgia curated by Sally Plowman.
A night of readings, performances, walks, food, music and video art by Nia Fekri, Bea Macdonald and Nastaran Yazdani
Programme
At the Chapel
8:30 pm- Welcome reading by Nia Fekri
8:35 pm - Music by Nastaran Yazdani
Dinner
9:30pm -Sound and Text by Bea Macdonald
Reading performance by Nia Fekri
Guided Walk through the Village
Sunset, in the fields
Reading performance by Nia Fekri
Reading under streetlight by Bea Macdonald
10:15 pm -Back at the Chapel
Video Installation by Bea Macdonald
Video by Nastaran Yazdani
Final performance by Nia Fekri
