In the crevices of volcanic rocks, the bodies of air and water droplets tree / following trails of the infiltrating shes - 2026 Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival

- Audience Information

［Notice］

- This is a lecture performance and is suitable for audiences aged 8 and up.
- Seating in unreserved and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- The performance runs approximately 100 minutes.
- Purchased tickets cannot be cancelled, exchanged, or refunded on the day of the event.
- Ticket collection is limited to the ticket holder. If someone else is collecting the ticket on your behalf, we kindly ask for your cooperation in verifying the ticket holder’s information.
- Video documentation will be recorded during the performance on September 13. The recorded video may be released publicly at a later date. If you are happy to be filmed, we will ask you to complete a consent form when collecting your ticket. If you prefer not to, we will provide a “No Filming” sticker to wear for identification.

［Accessibility］
- Post Territory Ujeongguk is located at 42 Dongmak-ro 20-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul.
- The ground-floor space is fully wheelchair accessible. A gender-neutral accessible restroom is available on the ground floor.
- The performance is presented in Korean and English.
- Korean captions will be provided for all performances.
- Assigned seating may be provided depending on the need for captioning or wheelchair seating.
- Accessibility inquiries: Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival KakaoTalk channel @smtf

Introduction

화산 돌 틈, 공기 물방울의 몸이 나무하는 / 침입-녀들의 자욱 따라
In the crevices of volcanic rocks, the bodies of air and water droplets tree / following trails of the infiltrating shes

장수미, 미리암 야콥 Sumi Jang, Miriam Jakob
2026.09.11.(금) - 09.13.(일) | 금/토/일 19:00
탈영역우정국 Post Territory Ujeongguk

［Introduction］
Beginning from the post-volcanic landscape of Jeju, this lecture performance moves across different time scales, following traces that persist beyond the event: lava becoming forest (tree-ing), humidity carried through porous stone (in-filtrating), collapse turning into shelter (un-making), and violence remaining within the land (re-membering). It passes through the thresholds between surface and underground, body and landscape, visibility and disappearance, tracing how breath, voice, vegetation, and geological matter continuously affect one another through ongoing changing material persistence. The work lingers with what continues to shape the present without ever becoming fully visible.

The choreographers Su-Mi Jang (Seoul) and Miriam Jakob (Berlin) conducted field research in Jeju in June and continued their work during a four-week residency at Uferstudios in Berlin in July and August. Moving between these shifting contexts, they continue their research in the form of a lecture performance in Seoul.
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Film: Sungeun Kim | Sound: Manuela Schinina| Interpreter Yujin Lee

［Artist | Sumi Jang, Miriam Jakob］
Sumi Jang_
Su-Mi Jang(she/they) is a choreographer, performer and artist researcher based in Berlin and Seoul. Their work investigates affect, embodiment, and bodies relation to invisible, collective, and post-natural forces. Working across choreography, voice, and Jang explores vulnerability, proximity, and modes of unlearning. Their long-term research into SCREAM as a relational and political practice has informed works such as scream es-say(2017), Dead-body Being(2018), and Queering Voice(2021).
Jang studied MA choreography at Folkwang University Essen(DE) and DAS Choreography in Amsterdam(NL). Their works have been presented internationally at venues and festivals including Theater Freiburg, Uferstudios Berlin, Theater Spektakel Zurich, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, DMZ Festival, and Frieze Live.

Miriam Jakob_
Miriam Jakob is a choreographer, performer, and artist researcher based in Berlin. Her work explores the porous boundaries between science and fiction, focusing on questions of perception, accessibility, and interspecies communication. Working across choreography, film, installation, and collaborative performance, she investigates how bodies(human and more-than-human) relate through resonance, uncertainty, and embodied form of listening.
Jakob’s artistic research often unfolds in transdisciplinary collaborations that connect art, science, and embodied knowledge. Her long-term inquiry into breath and relationality has been shaped by collaborations within the Berlin Artistic Research Programme and by her ongoing training in breath therapy inspired by the perceptible Breath Method of Ilse Middendorf. She studied choreography at DAS Choreography in Amsterdam and holds degrees in Dance, Context, Choreography (BA), and Anthropology (MA).

Film: Sungeun Kim | Sound: Manuela Schininà | Sound Operation: Heejin Jang | Lighting Operation: Serin Lee | Stage Manager: Ki Seok Lee | Interpreter: Yujin Lee 
Research Advisors: Ungsan Ahn(Volcanology), Hyunchol(Plant Ecology), Anne Voigtländer(Geology)

［In Conversation with the Festival］
Following the land of Jeju is not a journey towards an answer that is already known. The body stays with the land for a long time, tracing the topography and flora left behind by the volcano. Only through this process does one encounter the traces and times that gradually reveal themselves, allowing the landscape to be read through subtly shifting textures.

In the crevices of volcanic rocks, the bodies of air and water droplets tree / following trails of the infiltrating shes is a lecture performance based on the research Sumi Jang and Miriam Jakob have continued between Jeju and Berlin. It explores ways of translating into the language of performance the sensations met by the body as it walks, breathes, and lingers.

The festival follows these shifting senses, as time and space, memory and matter, and life itself intertwine and scatter into one another.

2026 서울변방연극제
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ソウル・マ-ジナル・シアタ-・フェスティバル
Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival

“흩어져, 모든 것이 엉키는 가운데”

Scatter, as All Things Entangle

The 2026 Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival imagines encounters between different temporalities. From the margins, we question other movements that reveal cycles and interweavings, and the processes of transformation that oscillate between the defined and the undefined.

2026.09.02. - 09.20.

Presented by Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival http://smtfestival.com
Supported by Arts Council Korea