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"Like ritual, performance takes place in real time." "Image ‘Approaches to Learning’, Brisley/Robertson U.K.1980". Man gets out of a lift, walks slowly round another man who’s standing outside it. They pace around, stand still, pace, one hits the other who falls, gets up; both pace. Heard over is "voice: ‘The Hand and the Nail’ [Zbigniew] Warpechowski", describing a man’s reaction to seeing another impaling his hand deliberately on a nail. Voice of Polish man describing Warpechowski impaling his own hand. Man hits the other. Darkness. Preparation for and performance of "‘Electrical Love Story’ Warpechowski Poland 1979". Warpechowski’s own comments read over. Still of military man reading at microphone. VO says "We are not trying to change the system. We are trying to change the way the system works… We are trying to return to the real meaning… and sense of an institution." Photographs of queues of Polish people; VO suggests they are queuing for milk, butter, soap, etc.; talks of the expense of these goods. |
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