Performance Art

Performance art, rituals, and action painting by Jan Karpíšek. Land art and plein air performances.

Second Biochar Ritual

Steirischer Herbst '24, Graz, 2024

Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude
Jan Karpíšek: Second Biochar Ritual, performed as part of the festival Steierische Herbst '24, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer using biochar, half nude

Purification

River Mur, Graz, 2024

Jan Karpíšek: Purification, a performance in the river Mur with biochar on the face, as part of the group project Second Cities, Graz, Austria, September 2024 (photo: Elias Holzknecht), performer sitting half naked on the stone in the river with biochar on his face

Biochar Ritual

Schaumbad, Graz, 2024

The artist stands in the courtyard of Schaumbad, Graz, watching sparks swirl from a biochar retort during a performance, while in the background the tall chimneys of the Energie Steiermark heating plant burn Russian gas.
Jan Karpíšek during the Biochar Ritual performance at Schaumbad, Graz, Austria, 2024, burning freshly shaved hair in a biochar retort as part of an artistic act of transformation. Photo by Peter Brandstätter.
Lucie Králíková shaving Jan Karpíšek's head as part of the Biochar Ritual performance at Schaumbad, Graz, Austria, 2024 – a symbolic act of transformation before burning the hair in a biochar retort. Photo by Peter Brandstätter.

Painter's Case

Brno House of Arts, 2004

Jan Karpíšek - Painters Case, performance, 2004
Jan Karpíšek - Painters Case (#2), performance, 2004

Vehicle

symposium Contacts, Klenová, 2004

Jan Karpíšek - Vehicle, performance, 2004
Jan Karpíšek - Vehicle (#2), performance, 2004
Jan Karpíšek - Vehicle (#3), performance, 2004

Throwing Action

symposium Contacts, Klenová, 2004

Jan Karpíšek - Throwing Action, soil and biochar, 2004
Jan Karpíšek - Throwing Action (#2), soil and biochar, 2004
Jan Karpíšek - Throwing Action, performance, 2004

Flow of Time (Cheb #1)

New Media festival, Cheb, 2003

Jan Karpíšek - Nova Media Festival Cheb #1, performance
Jan Karpíšek - Nova Media Festival Cheb #2, performance
Jan Karpíšek - Nova Media Festival Cheb #3, performance