1973

Galeria Współczesna, Warszawa

Manifestation Description:

OSJAN band performs on stage. In the space between the stage and the audience there is a tree trunk about 20 cm high and about 50 cm in diameter wide. Action. The artist appears dressed only in wooden hip covers to which a rope is tied. He approaches the trunk and hammers a wooden peg into its center. He ties the other end of the rope to it. He applies white paint to his bare feet. He walks away to the distance of the rope and goes around the trunk imprinting a circle of white marks. He unties the rope and throws it outside the circle of his footprints. He brings in the previously prepared: white cheese, a knife, a bottle of wine and glasses. He puts them all on the trunk in the center. He kneels by it, alternately slices the cheese and marks the divisions on the body by painting horizontal lines. Then he pours wine into glasses and paints a green plant on the body in turns. These actions are accompanied by an unusual musical improvisation performed on a recorder by Jacek Ostaszewski. He is joined by Marek Jackowski playing the guitar and finally Tomek Hołuj on drums. Then the audience is invited to enjoy cheese and wine.

Jerzy Bereś [commentary, manuscript 1995]: It was not fully a manifestation. First of all, it was repeated. Secondly, it was decorative in nature. And thirdly, it was not fully authorized because it was performed during a concert by the OSJAN band.