ZBIGNIEW WARPECHOWSKI, THE SHORT ELECTRICAL LOVE STORY, 1979 (1-1/1)
The Festival Work &Words – Gallery De Appel in Amsterdam, 1979
„1/2” in Amsterdam – the hall is much bigger this time. It is a former prison chapel. Similarly, I have three light bulbs (one big, three small). As I have got a lot of space, I make a light line, running with a burning bulb, as well as other figures, and a light circle in the end, growing as I let the bulb cable go.
Then it goes as in Świeszyn; I make frictional moves with the bulbs. They burn out. One big bulb remains. I still have one bulb hanging from the ceiling on a long cable, and the bulb is near the floor. I put the bulb into a pendulum movement and stand between this pendulum and the wall. My huge shadow appears on the wall, but the pendulum movement of the bulb gives an effect that the shadow-man has hung himself and dangles, because there is still the shadow of my legs rather than my head. The pendulum stops. I trample the bulb down. The end. I give an interview to Dutch television. While we were travelling by the ferry to England with Bereś, we were told that we were watched on TV at that moment.
(Zbigniew Warpechowski , THE CONTAINER. An author’s description of thirty years of a life path through the art of performance. Gdańsk 1998)
