Adriana Chiruta
THE KISS. Love as political power. A game
in Playlab #2: Love, Fear, and Other Rituals
February 24, 7 PM
Kunstgalerie des Rumänischen Kulturinstituts
Reinhardtstr. 14, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
a Love Lab game
Are our cities lately cities of lonely hearts? Let`s start to change this.
Solo or partnered, you are welcomed to train for one of the few 100% collaborative games today: The Kiss Game, a Love Lab and a durational art experiment for the public plus a powerful formula for deep, meaningful connections. This easy and pleasurable training for more love will help you embrace and contemplate your own and each other's splendor beyond any fear and games of power and control.
Aren`t there enough wars already?
We shouldn't extend them in our intimate lives, should we?
The Kiss Game was launched in February 2025 at the Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin, during Romanian Game Night — “PlayLab: Art in Motion, Stories in Play.”
Love as political power
video/sound intervention
Presented either as audio intervention in public space (PAV, Sibiu, 2022) or as a video work at Suprainfinit Gallery in Bucharest as part of Love as political power or how to rewrite our future with our breath in TRIUMF AMIRIA. The Museum of Queer Culture 2022, this is a fragment of a postmaterial performance with an unlimited number of performers. Started in 21.02.2017, it was inspired by this idea of Ludwig Wittgenstein:
”How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life.”
The Kiss
video
They remained glued to each other for more than 5 hours, in the sun, in the rain, inseparable, ecstatic and indifferent to all that was happening around. Bodies of love in a choreography of an extreme tenderness. Absolute masters of kiss. Nature was showing again as a huge space of performing arts or as an art gallery in which uncountable and refined non-human artworks are happening all the time. This reinterpretation of the theme of the kiss with a snails couple questions again all the narratives about human superiority in terms of performing love and respecting the finesse of the world.
The Kiss was previously presented in PAV, Sibiu, 2022, in Touch Nature at SAC Bucharest, 2024 and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 2025.
