Interpretation of the poem Agony by Zuzanna Ginczanka
Performance at the opening of a group show Mondo Cane. Jak obsługiwać świat curated by Wiktoria Kozioł in Museum of Contemporary Art in Szczecin. In collaboration with Academy of Arts in Szczecin.
Musical interpretation of the poem “Agony” by Polish-Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka, written in 1934, where she calls Europe to die.
The yellow stars are drawn
With a sentimental lyre -
Artemis white and slender
looks through the moon’s mirror -
such is the stellar destiny
mysteriously passed judgment:
nothing can save you,
nothing can defend you:
: you die, old Europe,
with pathos you are clanking like a corpse,
"o France, - o England, - o Germany, - o Lithuania!!!",
you are coughing up
with soldiers’ rhythms
you rot with gangrene - police,
you drip codes with oil -.
- you die, old Europe!
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