Projects
All Cats are Muslim
All Cats are Muslim
An evening's prowl with a clowder of cats through the back alleyways of Bradford.
All Cats Are Muslim is a site-specific immersive performance in the back alleys of Manningham (inner-city Bradford),co-created with long-standing Muslim, new migrant and refugee communities. Using RFID triggers, ambisonic soundscapes, AR and projection mapping, audiences embody cats navigating alleys, shops and backyards to confront rats born of human waste.
Experiment
£20,000
The work explores sustainability, migration and belonging, leaving digital tools and skills rooted in the community.
Aims of the project
We want to test how hidden technologies (RFID, ambisonic sound) can create intimate, magical storytelling, making streets feel alive with whispers, scratches and cat gossip.
In contrast, visible projection mapping and AR will provide communal spectacle, transforming walls and yards into living canvases animated with cats, rats and neighbourhood voices.
Meet the artists
Shabina Aslam
Lead Artist
she/her
Shabina Aslam lives and works in Bradford, her practice evolved through theatre, writing and directing stories with global majority communities and into sound and immersive technologies. To tell hidden histories, explore archives and re-imagine classics through a decolonial lens. Bussing Out co-produced by Theatre in the Mill, is out on a national tour at the moment. It uses binaural sound, animation and verbatim text to tell the story of post-war migration and racism in British Education.
