METEOBODY PAINTING

NEJVĚTŠÍ GRAFIKA NA SVĚTĚ, 1990, performance, (Pokus o zápis do Guinessovy knihy rekordů). Severočeský hnědouhelný revír. Velkorypadlo RK, papír, červená barva. 16×16 m.

METEOBODY PAINTING, 1990, performance, emulse reagující barevnou změnou na vlhko, drak. Severočeský hnědouhelný revír.

1. I prepared a mixture, which had a special property — its color reacted to moisture. To be specific, it was able to change color after a contact with water, from the skin color to red. To obtain this mixture I used “Šumák“. (A sherbet powder which starts effervescing intensively after being mixed with water. Before 1989 it was a popular soft drink.) Another component was “Duha” (Czech word for a rainbow, a textile powder color). I stirred both components in a gridding mortar, and after mixing them I obtained a powder of approximately skin color.

2. Then I spread Nivea cream all over my body carefully, and on it I applied the above-described mixture.

3. With help of on assistant we got a prepared paper kite in the air.

4. I performed this action in the area of a coal mine by reason of suitable meteorological conditions – there is usually wind strong enough to fly a kite I got into a prepared pit under the ground to prevent feeling the mind on my body. I inserted the wooden string holder of the kite into my rectum.

5. To hold the string pulled by the kite flying in the wind on its other side in my body, I had to strain muscles in my body with all my might. Due to this strain I started to perspire and the sweat made the mixture on my react. This reaction colored my body deep red.

6. This way the surface of my body changed due to influences happening outside my body which I could not feel on my body directly. However, these actions were transformed into my body in another form and were expressed on the body surface through to inner processes. In simple words, we could say that outer atmospheric phenomena were expressed through my body reaction on the surface on my body.

Severočeský hnědouhelný revír (a mining company), surface coal mine in Chabařovice, 1991.

 

POTENCIONÁLNÍ MALBA, 1990, performance, video, vazelína, sklo.

FILMOVÝ ORNAMENT, 1991, objekt, performance, minimaxy naplněné dvojchromanem stříbrným, filmový projektor, vývojka+ustalovač ve spreji.

TÁTA, 2010, (defektní film), 3 min, domácí archiv.