Jan Świdziński
Born 1923 in Bydgoszcz. Performance and intermedia artist, art critic and philosopher.
Since 1974 he has made performance art. In 1976 he published the manifesto “Art as Contextual Art” (Selem Galerie S. Petri, Lund, Sweden). He is the author several books publisched aboard: “Art as Contextual Art” (Lund, Szwecja 1976), “Art, Society and Self-consciousness” (Calgary, Kanada 1979), “Freedom and Limitation – The Anatomy of Post-modernism” (Calgary, Kanada 1987), “Quotations on Contextual Art” (Eindhoven, Holandia 1988), “L’Art et son Contexte” (Québec, Kanada 2005). Since 1999 he has been a curator and president of the International Festival of the Art of Action Interactions in Piotrków Trybunalski.
