Zakiewicz co-founded the ensemble named Fig. in 2009, with composer Alwynne Pritchard.
The artists collaborated on various projects including Engastromyths Quakers and Shamans, which was funded by Ny Musikk and performed at Landmark, Bergen, Norway.
A fantasy of interconnected actions, questions and constraints, drawn directly from the mechanics of the media used. Pulmonic ingressive speech describes the process of producing sounds, single words, or even entire phrases while breathing in. It is a technique common to engastromyths (ventriloquists) and shamans and was used by the founder of the Quaker movement, George Fox, to give his voice an air of mystery and inspiration.
