As earth turns, soil will be braided   

Duration: 20 minutes 

 Can hope persevere amidst what appears to be total destruction?   

Together with Phantom Wizard, this work facilitates rehearsals for sustaining inspiration and creation within oppressive times. Through our diasporic reinterpretation of the sacred Hindu scripture describing Shiva’s cosmic dance — a dance in which destruction and creation unfold simultaneously — we trace what it might mean to continue living, imagining, and thriving amidst chaos.   

  Not as a gesture toward catastrophe as necessary evil, but as an insistence on solidarity through resilience.   

As both of our cultural inheritances are shaped not by one singular lineage but by many entangled histories, we also reflect on what it means to carry long-standing Hindu practices as part of a diasporic identity. Through retelling, we reclaim narrative authority and confront the cultural divisions that persist as colonial afterthoughts within Surinamese society.   

  In doing so, we hope to move closer to breaking the shackles which still cast shadows on our beloved communities.   

  And so, making apparent that there is no singular way of being Surinamese.   

A Manual Anomaly  

Duration: 15 minutes 

A manual anomaly is a collection of stories that reflects on a moment in transit; moving between jobs, corporate expectations and understanding how to perform a job.  

Sandscapes  

Duration: 20 minutes  

Sandscapes is an audiovisual performance that activates the Library of Objects, an archive of small items gathered through personal encounters with people who donated them. A sand table acts as a place for listening to the subtle sounds of the objects while they transform themselves into narratives. In this space, personal memories and dreams intertwine, shaping an evolving landscape of fragile images.  

A shell- roofed cottage  

Duration: 20 minutes  

Alicja Mackiewicz with Aleksandra Komsta, Magdalena Ostrowska, Asia Jokiel, Zuza Loch  

A crocheted lace house is burned in a collective singing ritual, concluded with a reading.   

Using Bielyi Holos (“white voice”) singing, an Eastern European open-throat vocal tradition historically used to carry sound across distance, the performance addresses inherited ideas of domesticity, female labour, safety, and the idealised nuclear home. The lace house, produced with crochet cotton yarn dipped in wax, functions as both shelter and obstacle.  

Through fire, voice, and written word, the work attempts to release generational expectations attached to control, perfection, and belonging.