"Never ending Winter" Jaro Gawlik, march/marzec 2006, Bios performance - farewell to winter/pożegnanie zimy

"Day One" in many respects. March/marzec 2006 farewell to winter

Bios Performance" idea generation, march 2007. 'Sui Generis' by Sabina Ścisłowicz

Drawing the fish. "A warming world needs art / ocieplający się swiat potrzebuje sztuki" June/czerwiec 2006

we like pirates... "Idea Generation" March/marzec 2007

bios performance - czerwiec/june 2006 (a warming world needs art)

burning the Marzana, bios-performance marzec/March 2006 (pożegnanie zimy/farewell to winter)

Hello, and thanks to all the artists that have participated. The event has reached a point from the need arises to develop further, hence we have decided to start the Bios Art Collective, this will hopefully bring more focus from a larger and larger group, extend the initiative further.

We are (loosely) planning the next event for September, there are also plans to develop a sister event in Chichester England so if you are interested in participating then please get in touch:

Jonathan Skinner: brzeznoart@yahoo.co.uk, Dan Cumberland: welly@compuzone.org.uk, Joseph Sallis: koalski@yahoo.co.uk

Other links: www.myspace.com/brzeznoart, www.myspace.com/gobbeldegook

… 'Porębski constructed a more comprehensive conception to interpret the creative attitudes of the twentieth century artist. He set four notions of Greek origin on two axes – bios versus logos, and pathos versus ethos . The axes are coordinates for artists' attitudes at different moments of the twentieth century. These notions also form a circle, suggesting that the whole way  art had passed since nineteenth century modernism to the post avant-garde  had come to its starting point.

The initial notion is bios – the biography understood as  the price which must be paid for being an artist. Van Gogh, Gaugin or the Polish artist Aleksander Gierymski are those to whom this notion may concern. Then, there  comes the stage of ethos , the moment of the artist extolled over reality into the area of conceit, where Picasso is an example. Then, as an alternative to ethos, there comes logos as a need for a logical and  rational system. And this is the field of avant-garde utopia.

All lead to a break down in the area of pathos.

So, this is the crisis point , the stage of catastrophe, the moment of the conclusion that  the whole target  of all previous systems is nowhere. And what is left after such an experience? There is only the possibility to observe one's life, the return to bios, but with a distance of the whole life...'

An extract of a text by Piotr Bernatowicz "I'm leaving the painting (Wychodzę z obrazu)"  using Porębski's diagram to explain Kantor's art.

Bios – performance / Brzeźnoart

(re)contextualizing performance

it is not an urban gallery but a barn

in the state of becoming and un-becoming

identity as a convention ceases to exist in a state of creative flux

in its institutionalization art becomes a convention and dies as a creative process

Bios – performance

1-     the whole of our 'civilisation' is geared towards the production of of products or the providing of services and those who refuse to participate are left on the wayside at the mercy of state or social charity. Where is the space for the exploration of the act of living?

We are interested in process. Process for the sake of process, in which the end result is secondary or a kind of byproduct. This is closely related to the first point in the examination of life and not its end result – death.