We’re all trying to figure out where we came from. For some of us, “Home” is a life recreated in a new country, to escape a conflict zone or a devastated country. For others, it’s a house, a table, bread and olive oil…
« It’s very simple, for me home it’s bread and a table… » Nazim Hikmet.
HOME is inspired by interviews with Helen Chadwick’s neighbours and those living locally in London. Helen asked each person to speak of home and what that means to them. Some of those interviewed have since moved on to live elsewhere: a Palestinian man is now in America, a Colombian woman is now in Italy.
Others, born in London, Spain, Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Caribbean, Kurdistan, Turkey and Ireland, have lived in Dalston for many years. Songs are also drawn from conversations witnessed in cafes and on public transport as well as other lyrics from poems by poets who have known displacement and exile.
All the photos: Here
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Distribution
Music: Helen Chadwick
Authors: Hannah Arendt, Mahmoud Darwich, Nazim Hikmet + interviews
Solists: H. Chadwick, B. Cirla, S. Mahdaoui, T. Zolty.
With the Choirs Indéchiffrables: Les MardiSonnants and La Belle Equipe.A production Voix Polyphoniques (France)/Songtheatre (Grande-Bretagne)
Supports: aide à la création DRAC