Our Desires Are Bound: Music and Poetry Performance w/ Wojciech Kosma

We invite you to a meeting, reading, and discussion around Wojciech Kosma's poetry book: "Our Desires Are Bound," published by the Staromiejski Dom Kultury in Warsaw, co-organizer of the event. The meeting will be held in English and led by Max from the show im Regen-Austausch.

I write poems to speak them aloud. This simplifies them, clarifies them, but also "makes them real." I can't share something I don't believe in, especially publicly. Wanting to embrace the saying "he who sings prays twice" — I sing poems or even let them sing themselves. In the most beautiful songs, there's almost no room for language; the melody chooses the words itself. Our Desires Are Bound is a record of my speaking aloud, listening, yielding to my voice, surrendering it, and finally—in the midst of a forest, a city, a feeling — quiet, tender humming.

Wojciech KosmaWojciech Kosma is a poet, performer, visual artist, and a musician. He creates sensitive worlds where spirituality coexists with nonconformity, intimacy with intuition, and relationships with nature, with anti-violence discourse. Under the pseudonym Spalarnia, he performs concerts and releases albums; his latest, Paradox, was released by the Swiss label Präsens Editionen. He has performed at venues including the Tate Modern, the Komuna Warszawa Theatre, Camden Arts Centre, the Ephemera Festival, and the Molitor Gallery in Berlin, which represents him as a visual and performance artist.