Residencies

• 27.01 > 31.01.2026
• 20.10 > 24.10.2025

“blood and thun­der” is a per­for­man­ce by Kevin Fay and Guillaume Soula.

Together, they dis­sect the sonic and phy­si­cal excess of ​‘tal­king heads’. Decomposing ico­nic Talking Heads songs and cre­a­ting frac­tu­red sounds­ca­pes with text frag­ments from jour­na­lists, lawy­ers, evan­ge­lists, acti­vists and influ­en­cers dis­se­mi­na­ting infor­ma­ti­on, the work blends voi­ce, move­ment, and ima­ge dis­tor­ti­on to ques­ti­on how bodies car­ry and resist the thun­derous for­ce of words.

Indeed, if ​‘tal­king heads’ pro­vi­ding world news, life advi­ce, or reli­gious admo­ni­ti­on are unres­trai­ned and exag­ge­ra­ted (e.g. faci­al­ly, ver­bal­ly), what kind of thun­derous uproar emer­ges in the rest of the body? Is the power of the ​‘tal­king head’ felt throug­hout the per­son spea­king and the per­son lis­te­ning, or is it an act of ven­tri­lo­quy — dis­so­ci­a­ting bodies from words? If so, what is the func­ti­on of (dis)connection in rela­ti­on to the inten­si­ties of language?