“A kiss is an event that is shared and consists
precisely of sharing, exchanging, and happening in
between bodies. It is an edit articulating affect in
ever-different combinations. It creates new junctions and forms between and across bodies, a form
that is ever shifting and changing. A kiss is a moving
surface, a ripple in time-space. Endless reproductions of the same kiss: each one unique.

A kiss is a wager, a territory of risk, a mess.
The idea of reproduction condensed into a fleeting
moment. Let’s think of reproduction as this kiss,
which moves across cuts, from shot to shot, from
frame to frame: linking and juxtaposing. Across
lips and digital devices. It moves by way of editing,
exquisitely flipping around the idea of the cut, redistributing affects and desire, creating bodies joined
by movement, love, pain.“

– Hito Steyerl

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