Fragiles

Published on the occasion of the Words Don´t Go There exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig opening on June 30 2023 Fragiles is a new addition to Barbara Kapustas series of poetry books bringing together her recent writing

Solar (2022) is a story about abundance and a future community of energy. It featured in the eponymous four-channel video installation shown at the 2022 Frieze London.

Fragiles (2023) was written for, and performed at, the 2023 exhibition Words Don’t Go There at Kunstverein Braunschweig.

The leaking bodies (2021) is a tale about the comradery of permanently leaking bodies written for the eponymous three- channel video installation exhibited at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna in the same year.

Dr r ripping (2022) was featured in the two-channel video installation of the same name shown at Kunsthaus Hamburg in 2022.

Wien 1100/x938-x945, Or: How The Present Loses Its Future To The Past (2021) was written together with Steph Holl-Trieu and performed at haus at Oststation am Kempelenpark in Vienna in 2021.

Futures (2022) is a dark science-fiction piece conceived for the eponymous show at Kunsthalle Bratislava in the same year. It was performed at the 2022 exhibition The Palace Of Concrete Poetry at the Writers’ House of Georgia in Tbilisi.