For the first sound project of 2026 on its digital exhibition platform — conceived to foreground experimentation in sound practices and to amplify unheard voices — OTO Sound Museum is pleased to present All eyes on the eyes heavier than all the gold in the world by The School of Mutants. This work is an invitation to travel through a republic that proclaims the end of empire while its poisonous light continues to travel across oceans. From the Atlantic to the Caribbean, through the Pacific, and back to Europe by way of the Indian Ocean, what is declared past remains materially and politically present. What is it that it possesses, and how does it continue to hold? The French overseas territories span the entire planet — a geopolitical reality that remains largely unknown. The School of Mutants is interested in making perceptible where these places are, and in offering slivers of who their inhabitants are, what are the things they want to remember and forget, and what are some of the riches — material, symbolic, strategic — that keep holding them on a string until now. If (neo-)colonial realities still permeate these places, we should not turn away from them. We should learn to listen before we claim to see — and look them in the eye. It is a piece woven together by stories, by poetry, by music, by protest, by memory, by friendship, and by silences. It moves between transmission and opacity, between listening and confrontation. It is a collective journey anchored in the present moment, yet oscillating between the past and the future. 

Artistic composition: Lou Mo, Valérie Osouf
Sound (editing, mix design): Romain Le Bras 
The artists would like to thank Praline Gay-Para, Wally Fall & Frank Kompè for their input. 

The School of Mutants
(Horacio Cadzco, Diane Cescutti, Hamedine Kane, Lou Mo, Valérie Osouf, Boris Raux, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro) 

The School of Mutants is an international collective of artists, researchers, and filmmakers founded in 2018 by Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, later joined by Lou Mo, Valérie Osouf, and Boris Raux, and subsequently by Diane Cescutti and Horacio Cadzco. Working across film, installation, performance, and writing, the collective explores mutation as a political and poetic force. Their practice engages archives, transmission, and collective learning through multisensory and situated forms. The School of Mutants develops long-term projects that question dominant narratives and modes of knowledge production. Their work has been presented internationally in biennales, art spaces, cinemas, and public events.