Olaf Tchorek: performans w błękicie, który nie miał miejsca
Olaf Tchorek: A Performance in Blue That Never Took Place

Summary/Abstract: An attempt at discovering Olaf Tchorek, the little-known younger brother of Mariusz Tchorek. For almost half a century Warsaw has been the site of a statue commemorating him but almost no one knows that it features Olaf’s likeness. The Tchorek family considered Olaf to be an exceptionally gifted, promising, and clever boy, although he suffered from a terrible illness; his impact upon the dynamic of the family was undisputed. The above-mentioned attempt takes place upon several levels, the first being a performative approach to the modest bequest of Olaf Tchorek, while the second assumes the form of a brief phenomenological study of subjective experiences, the result of the author tackling Olaf’s fragmentary legacy. The third level consists of anthropogenesis, since the presented argumentation applies a system of phases in the development of art, proposed by Jerzy Ludwiński in: “Sztuka w epoce postartystycznej” – such art is no longer art but something completely different and with a greater potential. The system in question emerged after the fissure caused by the artistic revolution of the 1960s.The inclusion of Olaf Tchorek’s works into the phases of art suggested by Ludwiński is conducted in a lighthearted manner, probably after Ludwiński’s liking. – Peek-a-boo – as Olaf Tchorek would say.

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