Residency - The Land wants Us back
I have been researching landscaping as a system and tool for colonial exclusion. The Land wants Us back uses the humble lawn as a palimpsest for a multitude of histories and events. The research into sound for the project will be realised into a choral composition. I would like to use the residency to begin testing out what choreography this sound can stimulate. In thinking about our relationship to land, I would also like to explore how capoeira stances can inform the movement.

About the artist
Thulani Rachia is a South African artist and educator based in Edinburgh. Working with his interest in the architectures of power – and through works that include film, sculture, performance, costume, sound and musical composition - his work investigates how the built environment is an archive of history and shapes contemporary social relationships.

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https://www.instagram.com/thulani_rachia/

About the programme
Earlier this year, Studio Somewhere put a call out for submissions to our Spring 2024 Studio Somewhere residency programme. We had four residencies available for artists based in Scotland. The residencies are opportunities for artists working in experimental performance to put an idea in motion or explore a new collaboration. We were looking for artists who wished to explore projects that raise interesting new questions relevant to our time, or innovative in approach to form.

Read their blog for their residency with Take Me Somewhere