Champion of Golgotha

Galeria Labirynt [Labyrinth Gallery], Lublin,
16 October 1978

The action took place during the International Artists Meeting “Performance and Body”. The festival, although it had not received the authorities’ permit at the last moment, was held in a semi-official way.
Warpechowski had forgotten to bring his costume of the “Champion”, so he decided to cover himself with newspaper cuttings, especially from the Kultura periodical. Outside the gallery, blue elastic for underpants 10 metres long, one end of which was kept by Andrzej Mroczek, marked the field of the performer’s action. The artist, bound by the other end of the elastic, with a leather helmet on his head, climbed his main prop, a metal cross, gave a speech and drank Coca-Cola.

Photograph by Andrzej Polakowski

See also: #37, #39, #42, #44, #45, #49, #51, #52, #53, #54, #58, #59, #60, #, 61, #63, #64, #74, #162