BREASTMILK KIOSK
opening hours:
6.10.2023 - 9.10.2023
18:00 - 21:00
address:
Rynek Podgórski 8
Kraków, Poland


An installation that unravels itself.
Live transmission.
Performative squating practises.


A Paleolithic Fertility Fetish, Wisława Szymborska
The Great Mother has no face
Why would the Great Mother need a face.
The face cannot stay faithful to the body,
the face disturbs the body, it is undivine,
it disturbs the body’s solemn unity.
The Great Mother’s visage is her bulging belly
With its blind navel in the middle.
 
The Great Mother has no feet.
What would the Great Mother do with feet
Where is she going to go.
Why would she go into the world’s details.
She has gone just as far as she wants
and keeps watch in the workshops under her taut skin.
 So there's a world out there? Well and good.
It's bountiful? Even better.
The children have somewhere to go, to run around,
something to look up to? Wonderful.
So much that it's still there while they're sleeping,
almost ridiculously whole and real?
It keeps on existing when their backs are turned?
That's just too much--it shouldn't have.
 The Great Mother barely has a pair of arms,
two tiny limbs lie lazing on her breass.
Why would they want to bless life,
give gifts to what has enough and more!
Their only obligation is to endure as long as earth and sky just in case
of some mishap that never comes.
To form a zigzag over essence.
The ornament’s last laugh.
          Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
Respectfully punk,
BREASTMILK