No Time for Art (2011-2013)

Description:

A series of documentary performances addressing police and military violence today in Egypt. Diaries, testimonies, sounds, movements, bullets, resistance and whatever makes a revolution. “No time for art?” – a statement, a question, a form or prostitution or a mere provocation?

Laila worked as a Director for this project.

No Time For Art / 3 (2013)

Trailer Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JObRvtZuwhg

“No Time For Art / 3,” the latest in a series of performances that explores life under military rule through a focus on the violence committed by the police and military before and after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, consists of two intercutting testimonies.

No Time For Art / 1 (2011-12)

Trailer Link for 1 & 0: https://youtu.be/azR6peyDJzo?feature=shared

A performance combining and intercutting three first hand testimonies; comparing police and military violence and injustice before and after the Egyptian Revolution. They complement and split plot threads, which are randomly spun around the brutal arrest of two prisoners: one in October 2007, the other in March 2011. The setting for this documentary performance is minimalistic; the power comes from the words of precisely-cut testimonies. The density overwhelms and moves. Powerlessness and resistance lie, in this dispute between pre- and post-revolutionary brutality, close to each other. In the background, the state TV-channel flickers. Blessed is the success of the military over the 'Criminals who have terrorized the community.

No Time For Art / 0” (2011-12)

The first part of the “No Time for Art” series which was an interactive performance with the attending audience, undertaking the challenge of finding ways in which to commemorate the Martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution