Here comes the sun
2025
performance, 30 mins
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 2025
Samuel gives a performative presentation titled Here comes the sun, which expands upon his reflections on language and voice and their relation to the formation of subjectivity. There is a social significance to speech acts, and Samuel's work examines the specifics of these sounds and the social conditions that create them. At the heart of his work is a playful and performative use of voice; voice as carrier of rhythm, of vibration, of emotion; voice as the centre of the human self-experience of presence. Samuel also touches upon his current research project, Laughing Beyonsense, which explores the social dynamics of laughter in relation to structures of patriarchy and masculine relationships.
This performance lexture was delivered whilst Samuel was resident at Jan van Eyck Academie, 2025.
Video documentation of the presentation can be viewed here.