Must Be Talking To An Angel* explores the performative potential of a set of technological tools that process, modify, or imitate the human voice. These technologies widen the already existing gap between voice, body, and identity, by disconnecting the three components from each other.

What can we learn from this new state of affairs about the body-voice-identity relationship? If our voice is not (or not only) our own, if it is largely filtered, but also copied and stolen, if it becomes possible to speak to disembodied voices, or to hear the voices of the deceased, how does all this, in turn, influence the notion of identity, so intimately linked to voice and body? Is there, beyond the dangers lurking, a potential for liberation in this disconnection? Can voices without a source, just like angels, tell us things we cannot say ourselves?

The residency in BUDA will be the occasion to put into test some of the tools and ideas developed during the first phase of a research and to explore ways of transforming our findings into an audiovisual and performative piece.

in collaboration with Thomas Myrmel

_{*Supported by the FRart.fnrs – fonds de la recherche en art}

Effi & Amir (BE)

Effi & Amir are a visual arts and filmmaking duo, living in Brussels. Their work includes video, performance and participatory strategies. It is fueled by a constant discomfort with the notion of identity.