Under Head in Traffic is a scenic device product of a research related to the phenomenon of two contemporary migrations: from Middle East to the countries of Central Europe and, from Central America to Mexico, in transit to the United States.
The scenic device is composed of documentary material: interviews, experience life tales, objects, personal documents, and information about the political circumstances collected in different supports as video, audio and written texts and compiled in "The Catalogue of ships", a dramaturgical daily book inspired in Homer´s Odyssey. All these materials where taken from the tour of 10 specific stops that make up the route between Syria and Germany in the months of January and February 2016. To increase the dialogue between two migration phenomenon different materials will be added in August and September compiled of interviews and dialogues with Central American migrants in different shelters and meeting spaces all along the way from Colombia to Mexican south border. Finally the scenic device will be activated by a five days progressively scenic documentary -real time broadcast, in transit from the 10 stops mentioned.
The project reflects critically the issues that have generated the forced migration of millions of people in recent past and delves into the relationships that are formed in the course of their transit creating links of solidarity, affection and subjectivities. It is a journey from the ancient city of Canakkale in Turkey to Munich for the purpose to follow the identified route traced by thousands of expatriates from the Middle East. 10 stops – stations, were identified in a schedule of interviews applied to refugee communities in transit based on the reading of a "Migratory Tarot" involved in the formulation of speeches related to chronic arising from the trip. This action will be proposed to the Central American migrants in August and September in order to generate materials: video, audios, texts, personal documents for the creation of the scenic device.
