Collaboration

Simo

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Simone Klein, often known as Simo, was born in Providence, RI, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Simo makes sculptures and performances, primarily as a poet. They are interested in mechanisms, improvisation, and bodywork -- often all merging in contexts of ritual and spiritual embodiment.

At Brown, Simo majored in Modern Culture & Media while exploring interests in economics, public health, and physics on the side.

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Main Index Collaboration with Liliana Greyf

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Poetry collaboration with Liliana Greyf

2025,
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Liliana made the website. Both of them wrote the poems.

Click here to see the project.

DESCRIPTION

The artists’ collaborative work, which primarily consists of poetic text, is a project of togetherness and distance, distance as intimacy, love-generated poetry and poetry-generated love. The artists write from separate hemispheres, towards and from their connection to one another as immaterial and material, sentient and dormant beings. Their work is interested in the dynamic between a theological and an ancestral yearning towards a downward/south sense of Source. The writers are curious about the possible misuse of spiritual potency. They aim to create questions that critique themselves. They aim to interrupt the automized, bureaucratic, and extractive. They speak in body, gratefully and with sludge.

This work has no climax and no resolution — this work is all climax and against resolution. It is always grieving; it is always beginning. It will be held through time’s liquids in various structures: here it is as a website, the birth of a third entity of the artists’ relationship in the digital space: an animated palm, a chiseled courtyard.

This work is the descendant and ancestor of a lineage of collaborative writing. Exchanges between Rachel Edelman and emet ezell, McKenzie Wark and Kathy Acker, Pat Parker and Audre Lorde, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Emily Dickinson and Susan Gilbert, and Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson inform the writers (humbly); so too do the collaborative artworks of Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers, Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, and André Breton, Paul Éluard, and René Char.

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teachers, time, thank you, change