🌱 threads split into noise
🧠 a body forgets its shape
🔗 and grows back as links
dissoma (noun)
a dynamic, non-linear system in which knowledge, artworks, and signals are continuously dispersed, transformed, and recomposed.
an evolving index or body of work that resists fixed structure, operating instead through fragmentation, circulation, and relational growth.
a conceptual and aesthetic framework in which meaning is produced through processes of breakdown and reassembly rather than preservation or stability.
from the prefix dis- (latin: “apart, asunder, in different directions”) + soma (greek: “body”) 🧬
literally: “a body taken apart” or “a body in dispersion.”
the term implies not destruction as an end state, but as a condition for reconfiguration— a body that exists through its own continual undoing and reconstitution ♻️
ipa: /dɪˈsoʊ.mə/ 🔊
stress on the second syllable: di-soh-mə
🕸️ “dissoma maps the connections between sound, memory, and rupture.”
♻️ “the archive behaves as a dissoma, constantly rewriting itself.”
🌊 “the project dissolves works into a dissomatic flow.”
unlike an archive, which stabilizes, or a database, which structures, dissoma unsettles 🌀
it frames knowledge and creation as an ongoing metabolism—a condition in which every element is provisional, and every connection opens the possibility of further transformation.
it is not a place where things are kept, but where they continue to become 🌊