Golden calf factory is a conversation between an audio documentary about the celebration of the Biden/Harris 2020 victory in Brooklyn and a sound art piece questioning absent, distant and outcast voices from the rest of the world.

Sylvain Souklaye explores the sociology of orgy in the aftermath of the American democratic soap opera. Golden calf factory is an inside representation of an environment (people, culture, economy) defining itself as more important, greater, better and first in the world. While Vienna, Kabul and Addis Ababa were and are still experiencing turmoils, the noise of the American democratic soap opera can't imagine its final season not being at the epicentre of the planet.

Golden calf factory is also an echo of the passive behaviour of the worldwide audience. Ordinary and functional barbarity becomes a biblical and pure form of evil outside the viewers’ own frontiers. It is a troublesome evocation of Hollywood fantasy and economic co-dependance setting real-life expectations.
Golden calf factory is a time capsule and beacon capturing the democratic noise of an unbalanced collective moment.

Golden calf factory performative nature exists in two times and spaces. The audio documentary and sound art piece serve as an archive and the audience acts as a catalyst reincarnated in the moment of democratic orgy.

This piece requires a headphone or earbuds. Sylvain Souklaye asks the audience at home to blindfold themselves and turn in rounds while listening to the audio performative object. Turn after turn, the audience becomes an accountable subject of the democratic revolution unfolding, only to return at its origins, making losers winners and vice versa.
Golden calf factory is a soloist and collective performance about the real-life paradox of thinking and believing in politics.

Golden calf factory suggests one thought, what is left to bet on when data and emotion are two faces of the same coin?