Lumír Hladík - Anonymous Remained Anonymous

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Lumír Hladík

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: documentation -

DATES

Date of creation: 1977

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:00:44
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: In his performance pieces from the second half of the 1970s, Lumír Hladík repeatedly explored the concepts of the “unseen” and the “unknown.” In Anonymous Remained Anonymous, he decided to touch a specific tree and through this act separate it from the multiplicity of the forest. However, because he never knew which tree he had touched, he could never get to know it closer. As with his other actions, here too he worked in the open landscape near Český Brod. He chose a particular forest and began to walk towards it across a field. Around 100 meters from the edge of the woods, he closed his eyes and continued walking until he touched a tree. After wrapping his arms around it, he turned back, keeping his eyes closed long enough so that he was sure that he would only see the forest without being able to identify his tree. The action was recorded by two of Hladík’s friends: Petr Soukup recorded it on a 16mm camera, and Leoš Malík on photographic film. It should be noted that Hladík gave neither of them any detailed instructions on how to document the action. The film was edited without Hladík’s input.
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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