I tremble on your tongue of lava

The project investigates the intra-agent relationship between Mount Vesuvius—a geological entity in a state of emergency latency—and the communities inhabiting its territory.

It starts from the hypothesis that a deep resonance exists between volcanic quiescence and the latent, somatic, and psycho-political expressions of the collective, configuring a single entity-in-becoming composed of human and non-human agents. From this perspective, latency becomes a privileged field of research-creation-action.

Thus, the project explores a Vesuvian onto-epistemology: a set of relational knowledges that emerge from the continuous co-production between the geological dimension and local communities.