My Videomasochisms II

My Videomasochisms II

Synopsis

A Simple video performance mocking the so-called "butchers of art", some Polish performers (Zbigniew Warpechowski, Pawel Kwasniewski, Jerzy Truszkowski), that used to devastate their bodies during the performances. It is merely an appearance of the actual experience of an artist. I suffer a terrible pain on the TV screen in sound and vision. In front of the camera I "operate" on my face with various tools. By being transmitted onto videotape the torture of "sound and vision" becomes a public fact. Many TV stations broadcast it all over the world. It evokes the audience’s pity for its author. My game in front of the camera becomes our shared pain by making it public. An unceremonious sensation of pain. The body does not hurt, but a sense of pain emanates from the TV screen and plunges into us. ART can do it. It is only apparently authentic, but just such art is what many people need. Thus I am asking my artists’ friends – please come back to the screen of appearances and stop hurting your beautiful bodies.