Using a wooden stake and a very long piece of string to guide me, I ran two enormous circles in a field in the vicinity of a small town. I have no idea if the circles ever met.

Action

Location — near Český Brod

1976

Boundary divides. It turns one territory into two.The moment we choose to be within one of the them, we have appropriated it as “ours” and thus condemned the second to be the “other” side, the other “one”, the not-mine one. This relationship towards a boundary cannot be changed unless we transgress it and stand with both feet in both halves at the same time; such act, however turns both of them to ours. So, I decided to experience both halves as the “other”. I located an autumn field, half of which has been freshly ploughed. The divide between the two halves ran perpendicularly towards a road. I commenced my walk from that very spot, from a neutral place. First, I chose the field on the right and walked, in a large circle, in order to be able to approach the middle of the boundary between the ploughed and un-ploughed section on a 90-degree angle. I touched the “divide” with the tip of my shoe and returned all the way back to my “neutral” departure point. Then I took to the opposite direction and repeated the process. I touched the boundary at exactly the same point. The point of it all is that there are two territories but not two points; just one with no allegiance to any of the two territories. So where, the hell is the boundary?

Action

Location — Úvaly near Prague

1977

Blindfolded, I undertook a car trip with my friend to an undisclosed site somewhere in the Czech Republic. He stopped, helped me to get out of the car and sat me down. I touched the ground. It was grass. I am safekeeping a grass helm from this site till today and a treat it with respect. We returned the same day. Prior to this event, my friend promised that he would not disclose the final destination or location to anybody… ever. The trip lasted about 9 hours.

Action

Location — Prague and somewhere

1979

I decided to stroll through city of Prague and… refrain from talking and eating until someone talks to me. Two days later I ran into a former classmate. He said; hi, Lumir.

Action

Location — Prague

1980

I commenced my piece by walking, blindfolded, down a winding road in the middle of a forest at midnight. I walked alone. Being able to differentiate between the asphalt or grass under my feet helped me to stay within the perimeter of the road. I walked for a long time. When I had completely lost all sense of distance and time, I stopped and, using my finger, I drew an imaginary line across the road. This virtual ”border” divided my personal universe into two universes; where I have been and where I have not. I returned. The next night, around the same time, I undertook the same trip, blindfolded, again. My goal was not to cross the preset line from the previous day. I tried to guess where the exact spot that I had drawn the line was and stopped there, turned around and returned. The most important objective was to drive the Not-knowing about my whereabouts to highest possible intensity; to exist, for a while, nowhere.

Action

Location — forest road near Česká Lípa

1980

I formed an arithmetic row of randomly and locally found objects that I collected from an autumn field: soil, straw, grass blades, pebbles and ice. The distance between the items was 10 m and the row was 1 km long. A string provided me with guidance and was removed once the piece was finished. The row-forming items were not distinguishable from the environment they originated from. Although invisible, they were indisputably doing their job of being derandomized into a temporary state of order. As time progresses they will return to their destiny of unrestricted and uninfluenced entropy.

Action

Location — an autumn field near Český Brod (with Jiri Kovanda)

1977