Crisis Kiosk

„Change to come. Engagement in Polish art” in Die Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2024-2025
Vilnius Performance Biennale, Intervention in Kalvaruju Turgus during, 2023
Intervention in Halach Targowych w Gdynia, Polska, 2022
Intervention in Galerii Narodowej Zachęta, Polska, 2022



Artists: Yulia Krivich, Marta Romankiv, Weronika Zalewska

4’12

The video reflects on the socioeconomic rhythms of food production in Ukraine during the USSR period. The relationship between often forced worker labour - Kolhoz (so-called collective farm), and the development of mass farming implicates the transition in land relations that preceeded capitalism. The propaganda-driver documentation of food production also comes into stark contrast with the stories of food management as a means of oppression. The materials come from Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archives in Kyiv.

It is a handling of the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. By arranging a temporary kiosk stand, the artists talk about the themes of both exiting soil and food imperialism, global interdependence, and food as a grassroots support network and the cultivation of family or memories. 

It is a story of food, but also of sustaining life continuity through everyday forms of resistance. In the kiosk, which was opened for the duration of the performance, the artists combined the cooking of traditional food with an information point on the food crisis, while rhizomes, tubers, roots serve as both scenography and metaphor - underground, systems of sharing, strength. So what could be the recipe for solidarity? After all, in the grassroots life of crises, it all starts again with sharing bread.