WALDEMAR TATARCZUK
Lublin, Poland
Untitled
20 minutes, 7/09/2001atPall Mall Club

by Victor Petrov
The performance is constructed according to principles of dynamics and statics and their intermediate components. The time context is calculated in order to produce a gesture with explosive effect after a long pause.

The figure of the performer stands immobile by a wall, facing the audience with his hands behind his back. After the pause, the performer suddenly goes straight up to the spectators, and drops a vase of flowers onto the stone floor. Walking through them to the wall opposite, he stands right up against it, slowly raising both arms and leaving trails of black charcoal. The trajectory concludes when the hands are joined, leaving a traced circle. In this performance, one feels the importance of the relationship between planes and angles, the location in space, as well as the timing of the event into which the performer can insert any artistic context.