From Evidence to Experience: Revisiting the Documentation of Zbigniew Warpechowski’s and Raša Todosijević’s Performances with Fish
In the mid-1970s, Polish artist Zbigniew Warpechowski (b. 1938) and Serbian artist Raša Todosijević (1945–2024)—independently created works that, according to the photographic documentation, are strikingly similar. Warpechowski and Todosijević were artistic contemporaries within the East-Central European performance and conceptual art network, but they had no documented long-term close personal or collaborative partnership. Their respective works—Dialogue with Fish (1973) by Warpechowski and Drinking Water: Inversion, Imitation, and Contrast (1974) by Todosijević—were produced in close temporal proximity, within a comparable socio-political context of late state socialism. The two artists ultimately pursued divergent scenarios, though their works were documented in an analogous … Read more
