Statocyst is a performance addressing issues such as science, climate change, and matriarchy.

It is named after the sensory receptor used by jellyfishes to orientate underwater.

It also refers to the mythological figure of Medusa as herald of fore coming climate change and matriarcal era.

Statocyst reaches out to our damaged and threatened oceans, through sensibility, perception, biology, and eventually art.


In 2019 I was invited by my fellow artist Caecilia Tripp to share a residency in partnership with the University of Miami. The project named « Coral Sonata » included underwater recordings in the purpose of creating a sound piece dedicated to the corals, and guided by the philosophy of Edouard Glissant… During this time, the idea of Statocyst came as I was recording fishes, turtles, and dolphins’ sounds around the Florida keys.

A first implementation of this project has been shown in the Palais de Tokyo in November 2019 (see video trailer attached).

In this performance, Soprano Magali Léger embodies Medusa. In the dark, she is singing long notes, surrounded by balance twisting, neuro active infra basses. These low frequencies, and, the a capella vocal composition, were tuned on the room’s wavelengths thus immersing the audience in a form of watery sensitivity.

Biennal Sur would be the perfect frame to reactivate or even better to pursue and develop this work with more singers.