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Germay / Poland / Ukraine / Spain
2023-ongoing
theatrical play
collective / solo practice
performative action / concert
Kissing a Rock is an eco-sexual site-specific performative practice. It's been explored in the places of nature, galleries and theaters, shown on Porn Film festivalsindividually and in a group since 2023.
An intimate date with the nature of vector-changing matter of an archetypical story. A kiss - marked with the attention of romantic focus, kiss as a confession, a stamp, a memorial, a sign of a changing point, may we have a kiss for initiation?
Kollnburg, Germany
Schiesselhaus AiR
Camera and sound: Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoglu
As Kaja J. framed “intentionally dropping” in June of 25’ with a sticky of menstrual blood finger i touched rocks, it dried immediately.
1. 27.05.2023 Bavarian Forest, Kollnburg, Germany.
2. 20.07.2023 Alten Spital, Viechtach, Germany.
3. 29.09.2023 Triennale Grafiki, Kraków, Poland.
4. 24.08.2023 Odesa, Ukraine.
5. 28.09.2023 Rzeka Dłubnia, Kraków, Poland.
6. 02.03.2024 Habibi Kiosk, Munich, Germany.
7. 25.07.2024 Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Kraków, Poland.
8. 08.2024 Kem School, Teatr Cinema, Karkonosze Mountains.
9. 22.08.2024 Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, Kraków, Poland.
10 23.11.2024 Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland.
10. 31.03.2025 SYRO, Kraków, Poland.
11. 14.06.2023 Chelva, Spain.
*Rock tattoo for Kaś, Warsaw, 2024.
*Kiosk Kissing, BREASTMILK, Kraków, 2023.
*Screenings, residencies (2023-2025): Poland: Queerowe Otwarcie, SYRO: window sill , Germany: Sciesslhaus AiR: pillow, Greece: Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens P*rn Film Festival, Netherlands: Porn Film Festival Amsterdam.
editions 7 and 9
Duration: random, from 30 min to 2,5 hours.
Stenography: Pale of rocks, massive floor-weights, 4 pedestals, 10 metal scrubbers, a glass container with water, a white towel, a red lipstick, a desk stand mirror, transparent polish with a brush, 6 walking canes (?).
Action plan:
1 phase: choosing a rock.
The rocks are located in a specific place of the scene, they are laying on the floor.
2 phase: weighing a rock.
After choosing a rock a person is stepping on weights holding a rock.
3 phase: cleaning a rock.
The phase locates itself within a simple pedestal with a glass container full of water, metal scrubbers and a towel on top of it. The pedestal should be huge enough to hold a place for a rock and all of the elements of the cleaning station.
4 phase: kissing a rock.
In the fourth phase the rock is located on another pedestal with a mirror and lipstick. Applying a lipstick and kissing a rock.
5 phase: a clear coat on a rock.
The rock is getting covered with a clear coat of polish (from a big cane or nail polish tubes).
6 phase: displaying a rock.
After applying the clear coat the rock is going on a long pedestal and lining up with the following ones.
After finishing the last step the action repeats as many times as possible. A person is using various walking canes to cross the space from one phase to another. The cane is used as a walking support and a prop for tricks.
The action ends when the alarm rings, the alarm is programmed randomly from 30 minutes to 2,5 hours, the kissing person and a possible public are not informed about the duration.
notes:
You sent me the thoracic vertebrae disc made of sugar. Just wanted to ask should i bite, savour, or let it dissolve?
Cannibalism and allowing yourself to be fed, a sweet pre bite prelude, the taste of consuming your own form. Healing-licking, a ritual of repair — each circle of the tongue softens the sharp edges of the broken, when it starts to come together to the places of origin. Tasting oneself to understand how to fill what’s hollow.
liking holes (a groupe once licked my absence, i felt it from the far)
fingers and food, after surgery genitals, sex.
the slick line of healed flesh.
like a dog, furr and a naked pink spot; reopening wounds/
intimacy; spitting;
rage, aggression, libido, self regulation, joke
sex, intimacy, rage: self-regulation through hunger and satisfaction.
spitting between breaths, a reminder of the warmth pulsing beneath.
Location: Forest, a scattering of pine trees
Scene: A vestibulectomy Mayo stand.
The doctor prescribes a circular motion, a lick’s trajectory over a wound. “To understand the centre, draw around it,” they say. Lick the wound — dirt, compost, the soil’s grit, the juice of rotten raspberries, a loamy pulse on the tongue.
Licking compost - dirt - soil, swallowing a juice of rotten raspberries.
i can’t stop thinking of it while “decomposing” - mayfield brooks talks us through the practice. The feast of flash, ligaments, bones of an enormous body of whale, each day - a hierarchy of death thinking.
A tongue’s sandpaper licks at what’s broken so it reaches cold, blood, and salt, then slides over sand, sweat, and stone. The pot has no handle anymore still holding the echo of past touches and doesens coffee cups.
licking a solid material, licking cold, blood, sand, sweat.
licking a cup with some black coffee.
licking and when swallowing, wow.
a smooth river stone rests on my tongue. i close my mouth, letting its coolness ground me. stones, they say, carry the earth’s ancient thirst, their weight and language. i feel it pressing down. i taste iron, soil, something metallic—like blood but not blood. tongue follows its contours, edges softened by centuries of water, it’s a thirst that can’t be sated, a reminder of hunger that isn’t meant to be filled. i try to swallow this thirst.
29.09.2023
Kraków, Poland
Photo by @eweliinazajac
Hair by @kajajaloza
Camera: Tetiana Mytrofanova
rock gathering with Łukasz Trzciński and Dominik Stanisławski
@schiesslhaus_air, Kollnburg, Germany
location: @altesspital
ph: @contanchi
making out with rocks with @kem.warsaw
08.2024, Teatr Cinema, Karkonosze Mountains.