Samuel Maßmann
Samuel Maßmann
Samuel Maßmann

Performance by SCHMUCK HALLE und SOMA
directed by Samuel Maßmann

Fr 6.3.2026 | Start 19:00 Uhr
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40 | 80333 München

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What gives us hold in a transient world?
What anchors and grounds us in the present?
What of our present can and should be preserved?

Telling the void is a space mission in search of our ties and connections to the world. SOMA Laboratories build vessels for travelling our inner, emotional world-space:

We practise introspective space travel.
Telling the void's mission objective is to collect and hold stories. For this purpose, we're looking at an everyday, casual, but intimate realm: our emotional relationships with objects.

The starting point is four questions.

What would you like to tell future generations or an extra-terrestrial civilisation about humankind?

Do you have any personal belongings that you would like to last longer than your lifetime?
What is it and why?

Is there something that you consider inanimate, that is dearly important to you?
(Are sure it‘s inanimate, anyway?)

Is there an item from your personal belongings that you would like to get rid of, but
can‘t throw away?
Would you rather send it into space or bury it in the earth?

On 6 March 2026, the mission took off at the 1st International Summit of Jewellery Classes at the Pinakothek der Moderne.

In cooperation with SCHMUCK Halle, SOMA Laboratories launched four space probes equipped with recording devices. Several performers wore these on their bodies, inviting visitors to record their answers to the questions.
The performance creates an audio archive of personal tales, providing a space to research their universal significance. The stories will find their way into a listening piece and an exhibition following in June 2026.

This site will document the process.

Before and after the performance, the Archive will stay open for submissions.

You would like to participate?
Send us your recorded or written story!

Samuel Maßmann

Performance by SCHMUCK HALLE und SOMA
directed by Samuel Maßmann

Fr 6.3.2026 | Start 19:00 Uhr
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40 | 80333 München

PARTICIPATE

Deutsch

What gives us hold in a transient world?
What anchors and grounds us in the present?
What of our present can and should be preserved?

Telling the void is a space mission in search of our ties and connections to the world. SOMA Laboratories build vessels for travelling our inner, emotional world-space:

We practise introspective space travel.
Telling the void's mission objective is to collect and hold stories. For this purpose, we're looking at an everyday, casual, but intimate realm: our emotional relationships with objects.

The starting point is four questions.

What would you like to tell future generations or an extra-terrestrial civilisation about humankind?

Do you have any personal belongings that you would like to last longer than your lifetime?
What is it and why?

Is there something that you consider inanimate, that is dearly important to you?
(Are sure it‘s inanimate, anyway?)

Is there an item from your personal belongings that you would like to get rid of, but
can‘t throw away?
Would you rather send it into space or bury it in the earth?

On 6 March 2026, the mission took off at the 1st International Summit of Jewellery Classes at the Pinakothek der Moderne.

In cooperation with SCHMUCK Halle, SOMA Laboratories launched four space probes equipped with recording devices. Several performers wore these on their bodies, inviting visitors to record their answers to the questions.
The performance creates an audio archive of personal tales, providing a space to research their universal significance. The stories will find their way into a listening piece and an exhibition following in June 2026.

This site will document the process.

Before and after the performance, the Archive will stay open for submissions.

You would like to participate?
Send us your recorded or written story!