Delali Ayivor shows a commissioned work for Kunsthall Stavanger’s project #fromKStoyou. The work takes the form of a banner on the kunsthall’s building.
been thinking lately/of Fela, is created by writer Delali Ayivor. In the start of the summer Ayivor spent most of her time launching a public accountability campaign about institutionalized racism in the arts with Equitable Futures Collective. For the writer it was a crash course in community organizing, radical empathy, and an opportunity to learn, grow and reflect.

Says Ayivor: “One thing that has been constantly on my mind in quarantine has been my upbringing on the Continent and how my parents instilled a radically Black and African sense of self-worth in me from a young age through the music of artists like Fela Kuti, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Pharaoh Sanders and Bob Marley. It’s really fascinated me to hear songs that I’ve known and

Delali Ayivor shows a commissioned work for Kunsthall Stavanger’s project #fromKStoyou. The work takes the form of a banner on the kunsthall’s building.
been thinking lately/of Fela, is created by writer Delali Ayivor. In the start of the summer Ayivor spent most of her time launching a public accountability campaign about institutionalized racism in the arts with Equitable Futures Collective. For the writer it was a crash course in community organizing, radical empathy, and an opportunity to learn, grow and reflect.

Says Ayivor: “One thing that has been constantly on my mind in quarantine has been my upbringing on the Continent and how my parents instilled a radically Black and African sense of self-worth in me from a young age through the music of artists like Fela Kuti, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Pharaoh Sanders and Bob Marley. It’s really fascinated me to hear songs that I’ve known and loved and screamed along to for years take on new meaning in this cultural moment.

I’ve also been thinking deeply about processes of translation, and the ephemeral – but fundamental – things that get inherently lost when we try to make ourselves understood. It feels related somehow to watching my body change in quarantine, as I’ve been taking out all my aggression and frustration in exercise.”

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