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Kosmonauta 1

Kosmonauta 1
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    • Cosmonaut 1
    • Kosmonauta 1
  • 1995
  • shopping trolley, television set, video, 21min 28sec
  • 100 x 37 x 40 cm
The Astronaut project originates from a performance Paweł Althamer realized in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 1995 for a group exhibition at the local art museum. During his street action, Althamer wore a self-made astronaut suit, including white ski-shoes, a white military helmet acquired from Russian peddlers, a tight hand-sewn white costume complete with gloves, and a small TV monitor powered by a car battery mounted on an aluminium frame taken from a rucksack. Althamer slowly walked through the town, filming street life and the passers-by with a video camera which registered and transmitted images in real time on the monitor on the artist’s back. After a two-hour walk, Althamer reached the museum. He left his accessories on one exhibition floor as “the objects to be exhibited”. A.S.