Residencies

• 16.11.2025

The Moon in your Mouth is a research that explo­res kins­hip, and the inter­con­nec­ti­vi­ty of human and non-human beings through astro­lo­gy and the foods we eat. Stating from the ancient Hermitic phrase: 

No Doubt it is true,
that which is abo­ve is from that which is below, and that which is below is from that which is abo­ve,
it wor­ked the won­ders from one, as all things come from one by means of one con­si­de­red act,
its father is the sun, its mother is the moon,
the wind car­ried it in her womb, the earth fed it,
father of talis­mans, kee­per of won­ders, per­fect in power 

In this new per­for­man­ce she takes this spi­ri­tu­al phra­se as a star­ting point to unra­vel ancient cos­mo­lo­gies. As we search for ways to re-tell the sto­ry of human life, Samah digs into the ancient eas­tern astro­lo­gy and phi­lo­sop­hy when the pla­nets in the sky were part of eve­ry­day life. As abo­ve, so below; as below, so abo­ve is the ancient phi­lo­so­p­hi­cal under­stan­ding for the lar­ger cos­mo­lo­gy of inter­con­nec­ted­ness which fed sci­en­tists, far­mers, artists and emper­ors ali­ke. Nobody wan­ted to ups­et Saturn, or try to stand in the destruc­ti­ve path of Mars, the gre­at mali­fics in the sky. 

Taking the geo­grap­hi­cal regi­on of the Mediterranean to Central Asia as her star­ting point, Samah con­nects food to the stars. She tells a per­so­nal sto­ry of how the ancient civi­li­sa­ti­ons of the regi­ons she lived in, hold the sto­ry and the know­led­ge of all our lives today. As she invi­tes the audien­ce to tas­te tra­di­ti­o­nal foods, she care­ful­ly wea­ves a per­so­nal sto­ry from her pla­ce of birth near the gre­a­test civi­li­sa­ti­ons of human­kind, unra­ve­ling an intri­ca­te sto­ry of the unli­ke­ly con­nec­ti­ons of the foods we eat with pla­nets in the skies.