25 April – 15 June
screening at Lindenstr 35
daily, 8 – 10 pm

KwieKulik
The Monument Without a Passport, 1978, 4:31 min


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In 1978, KwieKulik were invited to the All-Polish Biennale of Young Art in Sopot and at the same time also to Arnhem for Behavior Workshop festival. Being convinced they would go to Arnhem, they wrote on the invitation from the Biennale: ‘trash can’, but, when denied their passports because of the ‘eagle affair’, they decided to go to Sopot. At the Sopot Biennale the performance The Monument Without a Passport was carried out. It belonged to the Activities for the Head series. The Head (in this case Kulik’s head) was sticking through a tabletop onto which slides were projected therefore transforming into a screen. At a certain juncture Kwiek put Kulik’s legs in plaster, thereby forming a small plinth. Thus her head and legs were now immobilized — in an act of changing ‘state’; from the penetration of the body with images to its transformation into a sculptural figure, which then remained for the duration of the performance. Kulik stretched her hand up, showing a file entitled ‘IDEAS FOR ARNHEM’; Kwiek cut a string tied around a roll of paper hanging on the wall, the roll unfolded, revealing the inscription ‘THE MONUMENT WITHOUT A PASSPORT IN THE SALONS OF VISUAL ARTS’. Finally Kwiek sat down on a ‘fixed’ chair next to Kulik, the plinth in which the legs of the chair were embedded being adjacent to the one around Kulik’s feet. This monument-like situation was then held in this static pose for a dozen or so minutes. The performance is documented by photographs.