Lumír Hladík - I Reduced the Diameter of Earth

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Lumír Hladík

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: documentation -

DATES

Date of creation: 1977

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:01:48
Sound: Silent

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Exhibited / Presented as part of: 35 let 7000 kilometrů: Lumír Hladík a Jiří Kovanda, Svit, Praha, 8. 9. – 27. 10. 2011
Compilation containing the work: Czech Performance Art: Film and Video 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ + EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Film by: Petr Soukup
Digitized color 8mm film without sound

Adopted text on the work: Lumír Hladík was part of the group of Czech body artists centered around Petr Štembera, Jan Mlčoch, and Karel Miler. Like Jiří Kovanda, however, he took a reserved approach to the extreme form of body art as represented by Štembera. Instead, he felt a closer affinity to exploring nature or asking universal questions. I Reduced Diameter of Earth (1977) is one of his many conceptual proclamations made using his body. He described the action as follows: “I decided to undertake a monumental task – to reduce the diameter of Earth. I selected a field with bared soil and started to dig a hole. When I sensed that it was deep enough; it was 73 cm. I estimated the diameter of the Earth at the site of my action at roughly 12,735 km. I diminished it by exactly 73 cm.”
Source of text: České akční umění: Filmy a videa 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Author of text: Pavlína Morganová, Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist