Résonance
From Speech to Soil
2026
Sep 19 — Dec 12, 2026
Free
Repeated during the Biennale, Eve K performs a fifteen-minute ritual: she gathers, reads and rewrites dreams on edible paper, chews them, forms them with clay, and buries them within bamboo. Intimate words enter a shared rite, entrusted to living matter as seeds of memory, renewal and possibility.
During the 2026 Lyon Biennale, Eve K will activate the installation several times through performances of approximately fifteen minutes. Each activation follows an open yet carefully structured score, shaped by dreams shared by visitors through the online platform and the physical dream ballot box installed in the exhibition space. Eve K may begin by gathering selected dreams, unfolding them and reading a few aloud. Anonymous, intimate fragments then enter a shared space of attention, breath and listening.
She may rewrite particular dreams in edible ink on edible paper, allowing language to become a fragile, physical and potentially consumable material. She will chew some of these texts: a deliberately slow gesture through which words are altered, absorbed and released from their original form. The chewed dreams are rolled into small spheres, combined with clay and given a new, earthly presence. They are then buried—or inserted deep within the bamboo of the installation.
Across each performance, the emphasis may shift between collecting, reading, rewriting, chewing, shaping and burying. No two activations will be identical. Yet they all affirm the same movement: individual dreams are transformed into a collective ritual, where private language becomes food, matter, soil and a proposition for growth. The performance does not preserve the dream as an object; it entrusts it to a living environment, to duration, memory and possible germination.
Audience
All ages
Duration
00:15