The Arrival Project

Drawing the Line

As part of our 2012 project - a theatre-circus production based on Shaun Tan’s graphic novel The Arrival - Tamasha will be creating opportunities for an Artist-in-Residence in each of the three years leading up to the show. Each commission will result in a standalone piece of work inspired by themes of migration, whilst adding layers of material and interpretation to the show in development.

As the first of these, we are delighted to welcome sound and visual artist Oswaldo Macia who will be working with Juan Toledo on Drawing the Line, a sound project combining elements that work as analogies for the notion of migration. These elements will include the archive sounds of migratory birds alongside recordings of young foreign voices, sounds and expressions - in their own languages - from people in four London boroughs.

The integration of these elements will result on a musical/sound composition that seeks to highlight the lines we all draw between music and noise, sense and non-sense, language barriers and audience action and reactions to sound, image and silence.

Workshops will begin with young people and groups from refugee and migrant communities in Hackney, Islington, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets in March. Watch this space for more on the project as it progresses.

For more about Oswaldo's previous work, visit his website.