'All conditions are material'

'All conditions are material'

SAMARITUAL: A QUANTUM CRAFT™ PRACTICE -

SAMARITUAL: A QUANTUM CRAFT™ PRACTICE -

SAMARITUAL is a post-disciplinary transcultural practice by Samar Younes.

It works through Quantum Craft™: a craft-based, artistic and embodied way of sensing, composing, and transmitting culture.

The practice moves across three ritual states: sensing (Catalyst), tending (Cultivator), and materializing (Creator).

It operates where disciplines break down, countering dominant systems that dilute complexity so new cultural forms can emerge.

PRACTICE CARTOGRAPHY

Samar Younes is a Beirut-born artist and theorist whose practice works through craft, ritual, and emergent technologies as living materials. She developed Quantum Craft™, an entangled intelligence shaped through craft, material cognition, and lineage, engaging technological systems as mutable material rather than fixed destiny - where ancestral, ecological, artisanal, and synthetic knowledge are held in relation through Silk Road accumulation.

Trained in architecture and scenography at Central Saint Martins, and shaped by decades transforming environments across global cultural and commercial contexts, her work examines how lineage, provenance, and marginal knowledge persist within dominant systems despite forces of erasure, abstraction, and flattening. Projects function as living artifacts: mutable, circulatory, and unfinished, tracing how memory and culture move through bodies, materials, and technologies.

She works through SAMARITUAL, mentors at NEW INC (New Museum), and speaks internationally across spatial, artistic, cultural, and technological contexts. Her practice is often engaged at moments of systemic transition, where dominant hierarchies fail and long-standing forms of cultural intelligence -historically dismissed, feminized, or rendered illegible- reassert their necessity.Based in Brooklyn and Beirut.

ANCESTRAL FUTURES X QUANTUM CRAFT™: REMIXING CULTURAL DNA

Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old

Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old

Entangled Intelligence for post-disciplinary futures

WHAT IS QUANTUM CRAFT™?

Where does transformative cultural work happen?

CATA

→ Catalyst Ritual
shift s perception

Sensing what systems
cannot see

CULTI

→ Cultivator Ritual → shifts methodology

Tending capacity
over time

Crea

Creator Ritual
shifts form

Materializing
the intangible

The practice moves through three states:
CATALYST (sensing what systems cannot yet see)
CULTIVATOR (tending cultural capacity over time)
CREATOR (materializing worlds, artifacts, and forms)

CULTURAL RESONANCE

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CULTURAL RESONANCE *