Noa & Snow (a team, a time spent together, a choreographic spell, a prefatory charm), a sensation that nothing that comes out of our mouths, fingers, keyboards, mother’s tongues, languages, is ours.

We are tricked into thinking that reactive interiority is about the shape of the person not about the shape of the world but I think we’re visitors, who are always visiting, and who are always being visited—we are always speaking names, always being spoken by them, always working in this unnaming and renaming, maybe both in but also against the grain of how poetry bears naming as a kind of power. What the words means is none of our business, but it is indubitably our business where the words travel. Anne Boyer, Maggie Nelson, Mirene Arsanios Stefano Harney. Borrowing books, dances, words, languages. Unfixing, dys-locating, dys-owning locutions, we -the borrowers- inside of a Noa & Snow timeframe, slid swords into words into libraries, (deeply) hanged out together, spent time across partially and obliquely shared readings. We jumped off board, surfed sofas, texts, annotations and their arrangements as many vehicles, conveyors of senses -as in senses-, leaving the littorals, our literal translations, leaving the ship [a pause for the word ship. The break it asks to think of a ship].

Owing to one another all the time (prior to and beyond the logic of financial credit and debt), borrowing words-thoughts as we are dances, re-flexing our muscle tones, our tongues, our mother’s tongues. This language is not mine, I bit my tongue, it is not mine. It’s a mother’s, language says: how i love the mutual indebtedness that is not about paying one another back, but about enjoying that dependance, listening to the ghosts (our ProteXtions we called them) in the paddings, quilts, of our shadowy studies.

Noa & Snow, The Book

EYNAUDI, Alix (Ed.) Noa & Snow. Berlin: BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE, 2022. ISBN: 978-3-96436-058-8

book designer Goda Budvytytė proofreader Bella Marrin

✂ Le Vestiaire
costumes & objects An Breugelmans tapestries & trompe-l’oeil by Cécile Tonizzo weaves

Lydia McGlinchey
photos at Macro Museum Carlotta Pierleoni photos of the Grimoire/Giant Notebook/Bison Rasa Juskeviciute photos in Vienna Samuel Feldhandler

✂ Them, ProteXtions

guest writers Paula Caspão Han-Gyeol Lie Mette Edvartsen Lydia McGlinchey Clara Amaral Ujjwal Kanishka Utkarsh Jennifer Lacey Cécile Tonizzo Sabina Holzer Alice Chauchat Jason Dodge Joachim Hamou Quim Pujol Litó Walkey Serena Lee

public events meditations Anne Faucheret Elizabeth Ward Kirsty Bell Tony Just Sabina Holzer Samuel Feldhandler Litó Walkey Frida Robles

✂ Texturages by Paula Caspão
✂ Vignettes by Alix Eynaudi
✂ Institute of Rest(s), a shady study by Alix Eynaudi by Paula Caspão, Quim Pujol