"Beyond Action"
by Jan Lubicz Przyluski (JLP)
Project
Is action something I do? Should I act and leave a trace? What is an imaginary action?
This art project is based on Dream Re-enactment Method discovered by Jan in 2013. It is an outcome of schizoanalysis and study of surrealism methods of self-development and strategies of mediumistic art process. Jan is examining these avant-garde approach in contemporary neoliberal, control obsessed politics of art and society.
The material for the exchange among participants is most of all the experiences of dreams and memories of holotropic states (Greek for: moving towards wholeness) or everything that seems to participants to be like: such as repeating deja-vu, psychedelic experience, mystic vision, precognition. All these para-scientific, psychotronic phenomena will be treated as a footage for re-enactment, performed behaviour will be documented. Documentation of dream re-enactment will be treated, analysed and discussed as if it was performance art documentation, in the context of art.
The work is concerned with local possibilities, mind set and needs, and that is why it will be community-specific (rather then site-specific or performative sensu stricte). Sessions will be held in group of 5-9 persons (no necessarily artists or working in cultural field).
The artist asks to treat this para-scientific involvement as an interdisciplinary art project, concerned with relational aesthetics, postproduction, contextual art in the era of cognitive research, brain mapping, use of meditation techniques in art, and other phenomena which go beyond actual paradigm.
Week 1: Research and Community specific preparations
Weeks 2 and 3: Workshop sessions
Week 4: Performance and documentation work
Author
Jan Lubicz is an artist working on border of art, scientific discourse (numerous essays on anthropology, his book "The Art of Action" awarded Poland's Ministry of Culture Award), cultural animation (work on contextual art network development) and film. JLP directed documentaries about performance art, edited experimental films (i.e. "Glass Trap", Nominated for European Film Award), worked as schizoanalyst and consultant to artists and art institutions. In Bellmer Society, a community working with transgressive, surrealist and ecstatic art, Lubicz Przyluski was a member of board, treasurer, lecturer and performer. Jan is also a founder and director of The Art of Action Archives.
He just published his new work "Warpechowski. The Way of The Performer" (September 2014) in the National Gallery, Warsaw, video archive disc about Poland's first performance artist.