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Meteobody Painting

Author
Jiří Černický
Year
1991
Technique and size

performance, mixed media

About work

Brown-coal Mine in Předlice

On my own body I smeared on a layer of special emulsion that had the characteristic of changing color and consistency when coming in contact with moisture. After that I descended into a deep pit and squatted down. Into my rectum I inserted a dowel, which served as a handle for controlling the paper kite that was hovering high over the earth where a powerful wind was blowing. Down in the pit I had not anticipated the effects of such a powerful wind blast on my body — its presence I was very intensively aware of through the pull of the kite. It was a lot of hard work for me to hold the dowel in my body, and after a while it caused me to break into a sweat. My body gradually began to form a red foam as the emulsion reacted to the sweat. (At that time I was very into the language of visual transformation connected to emotionality. I was exploring, for example, the influences of stress, euphoria, joy, etc. changes in the body in relation to what surrounds it. Most of all, the world of coral fish, cuttlefish and the octopus fascinated me).

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