,,LOCKER/SZAFKA”
,,REKONSTRACTION OF CHRIS BURDEN PERFORMANCE: “FIVE DAYS LOCKER PIECE” 22 - 27.01.2015
 

Chris Burden is an American artist, dealing with performance and sculpture. In the 70s he created
a series of drastic and controversial performances. His first performance was ‘’Five Days Locker Piece’’ in which

for five days he locked himself in a school locker, with dimensions of 30" x 30 "x 40", at the University of California, Irvine.

As part of the Performance Art Studio, under the tutelage of Artie Grabowski, I organized a reconstruction of Chris Burden's performance “Five Days Locker Piece" from 1971. For five days in the Option Gallery, together with students and people associated with the Faculty of Intermedia, I made a series of actions after 6, 12 or 24, in which individuals reproduce their own activities, while staying in the Locker. In my activity, as the organizer of the event and the creator of the object of reconstruction, I took first place and locked myself in the locker for a whole day. During this time, I was cut off from electronics and the reality that surrounds me every day. Being locked in the Locker, reconstructed by me, I carried a notebook and poured my thoughts that bothered me onto paper. I read ”Tibetan Book of the Dead” I was educating myself in the direction of Eastern culture.

I challenged myself in the perseverance of my body, just like Chris Burden, but I added the task for my mind, my interior.

In 11.02.2015 was opening of the exhibition called “Kombucha" in the Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki. There were also works made by artists from Africa and Poland, including my object LOCKER/SZAFKA. Also I recreated once again my 24-hour action, which was recorded and monitoring by camera and voice recorder.