"If you think that nothing is better then something, think of the nothing that is the best".
Warpechowski. The Way of the Performer is an audio-visual publication, it contains video and photographic documentation of over 20 of the most important actions carried out by this precursor of performance art in Poland, one of the first in the world to work in this vein. In addition, the film includes Zbigniew Warpechowski's own comments on his work, as well as other artists and art critics: Adina Bar-On, Oskar Dawicki, Zuzanna Janin, Elisabeth Jappe, Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Alastair MacLennan, Boris Nieslony, Józef Robakowski, Tomasz Stańko and Ewa Zarzycka.
Jan Lubicz Przyluski
The Way of the Performer
Language: English / Polish
graphic design: Poważne studio
publisher: Zachęta - National Gallery of Art
ISBN: 978-83-64714-07-8
time: 182'17''
Pioneer publication on history and hermeneutics of performative arts in Poland, including first happening, anti-happening and the series of most important performances. Preceding all other stories of performance art in Poland, the book "Art of Action" (2007) gives detail decriptions together with backgroung philosophy of art, displaying the evolution of aesthetics and human motivations to create culture.
Jan [Lubicz] Przyluski
Sztuka akcji. Dziesięć działań w Polsce
language: Polish
graphic design: Katarzyna Bochenek
publisher: Baltic Gallery of Modern Art
ISBN: 978-83-922414-9-2
Introduction to the contextual art: philosophical aspects of the theory of Jan Świdziński as well as artistic practices assiciated with contextualism. Comparison Swidzinski-Kosuth, in the context of logic, art theory and new art (new contextualism, performative turn, performance art, relational aestetics, artist-run-initiatives, etc.) This comprehensive essay was published in a renowned scientific journal of aesthetics, provides a direct approach to the subject.
Jan [Lubicz] Przyluski
To recover art for the development of consciousness. Notes on Jan Świdziński and contextual art
Language: Polish / English
Journal: Zeszyty Artystyczne # 32
Published by: University of the Arts Poznan
ISSN: 1232-6682
Jan [Lubicz] Przyluski
It cannot be shorter
Language: Polish / English
Published by: Mazovia Center of Culture and Art
ISBN: 83-60623-07-4
ISBN: 978-83-60623-07-7