Collaborator
Aliayta is a co-founder and collaborator on several interdisciplinary artistic projects, including work with the London-based design studio Kai Lab, the collective THIRTYMINUTES, and the climate activist organisation Pathway to Paris. More details about each can be explored below.
Thirtyminutes
In late 2019, Aliayta formed THIRTYMINUTES with visual artist Paul MacIntrye and composer/performer Liam Ross Gibson. THIRTYMINUTES is an interdisciplinary online collaboration, with two of its members based in London, United Kingdom and the third in Nanaimo, Canada.
The focus of THIRTYMINUTES is to create an ongoing artistic conversation, where each week, a member of the group creates an artwork over a period of thirty minutes in response to the previous submission. THIRTYMINUTES work across a variety of media including film, visual art, composition, poetry and foley, and there is a particular emphasis on modes of creation that challenge the members to step outside of their habitual methods.
THIRTYMINUTES regularly present the output of their ongoing conversation on Instagram and their website. They have also presented two longer audiovisual pieces with Espacio Gallery (London), Sub Tei (Berlin), and Make Art Not War Foundation (California).
In 2021, THIRTYMINUTES received funding from the Canada Council’s Digital Now scheme to support the creation of an audiovisual album that they will develop in collaboration with Olivia Shortt, Marla Hlady and Luke Hathaway.
I Wasn’t Ready to Leave This World Behind by THIRTYMINUTES.
Kai Lab
Aliayta regularly collaborates with arts and design practice Kai Lab to create interdisciplinary performative works. She worked with Kai Lab in London to co-compose the evening-length Phases, a piece for violin and multichannel sound that was debuted as part of a solo exhibition by Kai Lab.
In 2024, Aliayta and Kai Lab created a new work for violin and light sculpture called Iterations. The work was performed at National Sawdust and Princeton University.
Iterations for violin and light sculpture by Kai Lab and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes.
pathway to paris
Aliayta has worked with Pathway to Paris, an organisation that brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, mayors, and innovators to help raise consciousness surrounding the urgency of the climate crises and offers solutions to turning the Paris Agreement into action.
In 2020, Aliayta worked with Pathway to Paris alongside Patti Smith, Olafur Eliasson, Joan Baez and Bill McKibben to deliver online events as part of World Environment Day and NYC Climate Week. As part of this work, she was asked by the ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability to perform for the Mayor of Bonn at Beethoven’s 250th celebrations. Following this, Aliayta was invited by Pathway to Paris and Patti Smith to perform in a new ‘People Have the Power’ video as part of a voting initiative during lockdown.
People Have the Power with Patti Smith and Pathway to Paris.