Józef Robakowski
I Am Going
The video performance I Am Going was made during Józef Robakowski’s activity at the Workshop of the Film Form. It opens a series of what he called “biological-mechanical recordings.” In the 1970s, Robakowski explored the relations between the human body and technology. In I Am Going, a camera, attached to Robakowski’s body, records his monotonous climb up the stairs of a parachute tower. The film, shot in a single take, reflects the real-time action without any editing.
Józef Robakowski
(b. 1939) a multimedia artist, considered an icon of Polish experimental
film. His oeuvre includes films, photographs, videos, drawings, installations and conceptual projects. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and at the Faculty of Cinematography of the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, where he was a lecturer in 1970–1981 and again from 1995. The co-founder of many experimental art groups, including the Workshop of the Film Form. He was the curator of the Exchange Gallery and the originator of the Katarzyna Kobro Award.