Text In my piece Lactoland 2022 I combine my professional experience of care work with my personal one of breastfeeding Lactoland is a fictional company and the setting for a film It performs the revaluation of human milk In this company it is that the la

In my piece Lactoland (2022), I combine my professional experience of care work with my personal one of breastfeeding. Lactoland is a fictional company and the setting for a film. It performs the revaluation of human milk. In this company, it is that the labour of reproduction – that is, milk production – is paid for. It shows the process of pumping milk in spatial isolation with its characteristic sound and then the production of candy from the laboriously extracted milk. Every drop counts. For me, this candy is a symbol of the social inequality of the female body, the utopian dissolution of which i want to make perceptible to the senses while sucking on it. I am interested in making visible an aspect of reproduction work that is still carried out exclusively by women, work that is often hidden in everyday life in designated spaces such as parent-child rooms, sanitary facilities or at home. The activity of pumping milk is and remains unpaid as a rule. However, in my view it is a job that could be shared collectively. My written work "Milchmaschine. Eine virtuelle Ästhetik des reproduzierenden Körpers" ( Milk Machine. A virtual aesthetic of the reproducing body) explores the history of breastfeeding and pumping and forms the theoretical concept of Lactoland.