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hi, i’m working on a Kissing a Rock gazette now. 
we’re having a contributions column there. contact via email mariia.lemperk@gmail.com to participate                                        
an interdisciplinary artist/curator with a practice evolved on the edges of memory and body politics.
their recent interest focuses on the (un- and)controlled pain environments, collective grieving, performative archives, non-hierarchical togetherness issues, gender deconstructions and presence of queer in the political and cultural chaoses of today.




kissing rocks,
fucking walking canes,
building performative playgrounds,
romancing with mistakes,
learning pleasure,
endlessly exploring strategies of resistance,
collective choreographies,
post-pornography,
educational methodologies,
activist actions,
with performative tools
of situation and process (co)composing.




mariia Lemperk (she/he/they)
                          from Odesa, Ukraine  
based in between Kraków and Barcelona

mariia.lemperk@gmail.com                        
instagram    mariialemperk.substack
chronic  pain condition fundrising



.PAIN GAME

Poland
2023-ongoing
 Process-oriented project

record of the editions:
docs.google.com/document/
1st edition
Location: Goethe Institute, Cracow
19.12.2023, 18:00 – opening durational action;
20.12.2023 – BREASTMILK trio appearance;
31.12.2023, 12:00 – noise concert, D. Kowalik i mariia Lemperk.

2st edition
02.07-01.09.2024
Location:Cloakroom gallery, Cricoteka, Kraków.
Curator: Kamil Kuitkowski

sound layer:
bandcamp 31st
Noise, sound/movement experiment, research-based, performative (actionist) duo.
31.12.2023 - “PAIN GAME” noise concert, Goethe Institute Krakau.
3.07–1.09 2024 - “PAIN GAME: second station” exhibition, Cricoteca.
31.12.2024 - “PAIN GAME: second station” noise concert, Cricoteca.

1. Figurine making [1,8,9.12.2023]
Location: ASP Kraków, Dom Utopii.
People involved: Dominik Stanisławski, Łukasz Trzciński, dr Tomasz Bielecki, dr Sławomir Biernat, mariia Lemperk. 
3. Opening durational action.
Location: Goethe Institute, Kraków.

People involved: Łukasz Trzciński, mariia Lemperk, Dominik Stanisławski, Dorota Krakowska, Dr. Claus Heimes, participants.
6. Noise concert with D.Kowalik.
Location: Goethe Institute, Kraków.
People involved: D. Kowalik, Łukasz Trzciński, mariia Lemperk.

Photo documnetation by Łukasz Trzciński

4. BREASTMILK trio appearance.
Location: Goethe Institute and Wisła River, Kraków.
People involved: BREASTMILK trio, Dziad.
Practice: Rearranged after the check-in emotional silent practice of burning. Lead by BREASTMILK, accompanied by Dziad.
 Shared reflections on the Christmas pain traditions, Baseball bats as a gift, smoking cigarettes with balaclavas, Supporting togetherness, intuitively chosen Dziad’s place on the Wisłas stairs.

Table transport: two approaches to entering space.
Wall washing and repainting.
D. Kowalik, Łukasz Trzciński, mariia Lemperk, Kamil Kuitkowski, participants of the action.
Preparations: 
Vase-shaped objects making, 
protecting the gallerie’s floors, 
changing the tabletop, 
collecting hair (Zuzanna, Kaja, Karolina, Ernest, Szymon, Sos, Ula, BolekiSmolek, mariia), 
A summarising conversation and sound demontage.
Next edition
PAIN GAME: Walking Cane
16.09.2025, Dresden, dasKONZERTs