JAN BERDYSZAK, ABOUT THE NEED FOR INDIVIDUAL ACTING (LECTURE WITH TILES), 1980 (1-9/9)

On 10 December 1980 Jan Berdyszak arrived upon the invitation of the Workshop Dziekanka to declaim a text about himself. The artist has shown up in good mood and without prepared performance. Before entering he spotted a stack of tiles, as the building was under roof reconstruction at the moment. Berdyszak brought the tiles inside and in silence, saying nothing, started the lecture, laying out the tiles.

There was a mood close to mysterium, as the artist has created a unique extra-verbal communication with the audience.

„Lecture with introductory speech was delivered with the use of eighty tiles.
Content of the introductory speech:
Creation is experience. Art means knowing, not cognition. Thinking - acting - thinking – acting as a source of special senses and states. Necessity of revealing of non-verbal and non-symbolic thinking. Misuse of verbal language. Misused means: external, non-proper, compilative. Necessity of extra-verbal thinking and revealing. Necessity of cting to generate discrete, weak and unarmed values. Acting means: thinking and existing.
Content of lecture with tiles:
(Each sequence of the performance simultaneously consisted of construction and destruction.)
Gathering. Dispersion. Reconstruction of oneself. Exits. Reconstruction of something. Stereotypes. Objections. Different senses. Loss of borders. Everything in use. Centers of simultaneous various dependences and actions. Everything. Fragments. Everything....

Duration: approximately 40 minutes. Without collective discussion. Without collective reasons. Individual talks with the interested persons.
 

[Jan Berdyszak, note from a sketch-book. 1980 [in:] Pracownia Dziekanka 1976 – 1987, Warsaw,1990]