Friday, November 10, 7 p.m.
Profile Foundation
Franciszkańska 6 Warsaw
Free admission
We invite you to the performance by Jarosław Kozłowski from the Continuum series. This will be the fortieth and, according to the artist, the last performance in this series.
The first of Jarosław Kozłowski’s drawing performaces, realised in the late 1970’s, had individual titles. From the 1988 on, all of Kozłowski’s activities are framed by the same title: Continuum, only their numbering being changed. In Continuum I an alarm clock has appeared for the first time; it measured the time in which the board was drying after being covered with drawings in white chalk and, subsequently, wiped. The collection of 39 stilled alarm clocks is the remains of the Continuum series, realized to date. Each of his activities follows the same script, only the time and place being different. This activity, repeated for more than forty years has proved a new experience for the artist every time: ‘I repeat the same actions, but they set free a new energy in me each time, new motions, new rage, and each time it’s truly something new, for the first time. Continuum demands physical effort. My physical condition has changed over the years and, no matter how I try to draw the same way, it comes out different each time because the chalk breaks more often or less frequently, the surface of the board is it comes out different each time because the chalk breaks more often or less frequently, the surface of the board is different, and so on. On every occasion, it’s a different time, a different space, a different audience, and a different interaction between us. And so, for me, every new execution of the performance is a new experience (…) nothing can be repeated.’
Drawing activities initiated by the artist in 1978 were carried out in the following decades, among others: in Poznań, Hamburg, Montreal, Edmonton, London, Sydney, Oxford, The Hague, Oslo, Poznań, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Brno, Toulouse, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Copenhagen, Moscow. Continuum XXIX in 2009 took place at the Profile Foundation.
