ART OF ACTION AND FILM
Lectures
1. Performance and film (Filming the live action).
How live action is changed by an act of filming? What happens when there are more cameramen documenting the performance then other viewers? How performance art should be filmed? All these subjects create a complex problem to be discussed. Is documentation a naïve promise of reproducing „reality“ of action? We will also provide essential knowledge about camera work and editing in a process of re-creating an image of performance art.
It will be accompanied by basic questions on philosophical background of live-art, action and performance, such as represantation of movement, the image and the flux, stillness and vibration, space and time.
We will try to recreate a history of performance art as we can see it on pictures, film and video in the context of the rise of video documentation and art documenting movement.
2. What is art of action?
This project focuses on intermedia and ephemeric art of direct doing which was called the art of action. Author reconstructs a process of most representative events of this kind – first happening, first anti-happening and a series of performances, which were developed in Poland, between 1950 and 1980. Each of these action was shown as key moments of creative processes of presented artist, who had strongly influenced modern art. Cricotage of Tadeusz Kantor, Pube of Taint of Wlodzimierz Borowski, Behaving of Andrzej Matuszewski and a series of performances by Zbigniew Warpechowski are providing material which makes us capable of posing a question about the nature of the art of action itself, about understanding its sense and logic, as well as its real potential in the creation of culture.
Presentations – Screenings
Przyłuski/Leszczynski lectures, video presentations and film screenings in Israel:
- Lecture + video presentation (fragments of raw material and a process of editing it).
- Presentation of Polish cultural heritage in modern art. Roots of Contextual art.
- Presentation of filming the action given by a cinematographer educated in tradition of „Polish School“ of film documentary.