2019 Orange House Resident Thembi Soddell collaborated with artist Onyx B Carmine to explore the possibilities of collaboration, to gain a deeper understanding of each other's research and practice, evolving a collaborative method for devising a new sound and performance work.

'The residency met my expectations and exceeded it. Onyx and I spent our time together discussing our repertoire of works and research, sharing writing and sound compositions, and seeding ideas for how we might merge our practices. Living together gave us time to go deep. This was of extreme value to both my own development as a solo artist and in discovering how we might work together. I feel grateful and lucky to have gotten such deep insight into the rigour and detail behind Onyx’s practice.'