Szymon and Śomi while collaborating with Salomé Pham-Van-Hué – explorer 'geomancy' an ancient art of divination drawn from the earth – as a way way reading Lisbon’s fractures and reimagining ist histories. Taking the 1755 earthquake as a point of departure, they treat the city’s fissures in walls, streets, and stones as sites of prohecy, weaving together past, present, and future. Inspired by Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, their work unfolds throught psychogeographic drifts, slow walks, and blind walkst hat expose the cracks between dream and waking, revealing hidden narratives at the eges of reality.
ŚOMI ŚNIEGOCKA (www.somisni.pl) is a artist, sound poet and witch. Inspired by the surrealists and fascinated by psychogeogrphy, she translates dreams into wa(l)king language.
Salomé Pham-Van-Hué is a dancer and choreographer from France, with a background in Political Sciences. Their work, grounde in somatic practices, explores alternatives to capitalist and patriarchal logic by giving space to the invisable, inefficiency, and imagination.
'esperar'
The concept of Esperar (Waiting) first took root in Lisbon dring PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Choreography, curated by meg stuart. there, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué and ŚOMI found they had been independently developing solo performances that explored the theme of time. during their residency at zaratan, this exploration expanded as szymon joined the collaboration, creating a video essay as part of research Geomancy, thei work together become a way to "open a time capsule" - a space for alternative temporalities to emerge, ones ofren overlookjed, crushes, or rendered invisible by the speed and brutaLITYof the world we live in.
Sam & Śomi
Śomi & Sam
