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>From: "Wladyslaw Kazmierczak" <bwa@priv1.onet.pl>
>
>Dear Artists,
>we would like to publish your answer to the question:
>
>What is performance art?
>
>After almost 30 years of performance art, artists and art critics still
>come across a nagging question: WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART?
>?WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART?" is the most general question, containing lots of
>detailed questions, which are important from the point of view of one's own
>artistic practice and ideas. We are aware that each performance artist
>answers this question through his / her own art.
>We are convinced that the lack of precise definition and unequivocal
>answers is the essence of performance art and its liveliness. This belief
>does not change the fact that sympathizers and ordinary members of the
>public wait for less or more precise definition of the performance art. I
>think, that we ? artists ? should not avoid the necessity of answering
>those who ask about that definition.
>Maybe, a good solution to this problem would be answering the question:
>?What is performance art FOR YOU?" and quoting these answers as a
>co-definition of the main question.
>
>We also face a still unverified possibility of finding common points among
>individual definitions.
>
>The other, equally important question is: ?When DO YOU THINK did the
>performance art appear?" Answering this question makes our definition of
>performance art more precise and broadens it.
>
>And in the end, the third question: ?Do you THINK, that the definition (or
>understanding) of the performance art has changed through time?"
>
>I address the question: ?WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART?" to all artists I know
>>from all over the world. All the answers will be published in a book about
>the performance art. The literary form and size is unrestricted. Their
>content will be not changed in any way and if the author wishes so, we'll
>also publish photographs of his / her performance. This book may become a
>very important factor of the performance art research and a source of
>information for critics, theoreticians and all those who write about
>performance art in Poland and in the whole world. All the texts will be
>printed in Polish and English. We are also going to quote other authors of
>those few publications about performance art that appeared in the world,
>but only artists will be the authors of the book titled: WHAT IS
>PERFORMANCE ART? We want to change the practice of
>writing about the performance art by critics whom we do not even know. We
>do not want our reflections to be replaced by the opinion of only one
>person (e.g. an art critic) or to be ignored by hundreds of others.
>
>We would like to ask you to send us your statements until 30th, May 2000,
>which is a deadline. The book will be published in September 2000 during
>the 8th International Festival of Performance Art ?Castle of Imagination"
>Best regards,
>
>Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
> performer & curator of the 8th IFPA
>Please, send your texts to the e-mail address: bwa@friko.onet.pl
>or to: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, ul. PartyzantŰw 31a, 76-200 S„upsk,
>Poland
>
>
>WLADYSLAW KAZMIERCZAK
>wladek_kazmierczak@poczta.onet.pl
>bwa@friko.onet.pl
>bwa@priv1.onet.pl
>address:
>Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych
>ul. Partyzantow 31 A,
>76 200  S L U P S K
>Poland
>tel. +48 59 8425 674
>fax: +48 59 8411 949
>tel. +48 59 8146 089
>mobile tel. +48 603 07 57 58
>mobile tel. from Poland 0 603 07 57 58
>
>

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