Vultures

On Tuesday 15 December 2026, Matt Brombley and Anna Durance bring a unique and unmissable immersive multi-media performance to God's House Tower. Together they will perform an extended and expanded version of ‘Vultures’, a piece which originally debuted at British Science Festival, kindly supported by Mayflower Studios. 

At the heart of the performance is Matt’s custom-coded, biodynamic system which turns drawing on canvas into sound, sound into video, and video back into drawing again. Now this system will interact with live instrumental performance for the first time, as the duo improvise collaboratively over 60 minutes.

The audience is welcome to move in, out and through the space as the piece unfolds. The audience is also invited to bring sketching materials: engaging with the work through their own drawing in response to the music, the visuals, and the space.

Vultures draws inspiration from research by Chiying Lam, Jennifer Williams and Sarah Kiden. In their research project, Deepfakes and Society, they worked with the Cross Culture hub, engaging migrant women in conversations about deepfakes, digital trust and their experiences of encountering manipulated media.

The piece takes its title from the words of one participant’s reaction to deep fake video: “very convincing, they’re like vultures”. Emerging from that central metaphor, the piece draws in themes from the research and their resonance with Matt’s own practice and identity, exploring tensions inherent in the relationships we have with, and the relationships between, technology, family, and the environment; relationships with and between doubt and belief; progress and reflection; identity and belonging; relationship with and between life and death.