A defect, caused by an accidental magnetic glitch on video tape visible as a drop—out effect, in the performance is effected by using a needle, with which the artist, wrapped with the tape, makes holes in the tape and his own body. Before the artist wraps himself with the tape taken out of a cassette, he uses a camcorder to film a close—up of his torso and head in a self—portrait recording, with the camera held in his own spinning hand. The pierced tape with the traces of stigmatic drops of blood is returned to the cassette, and carefully locked by the artist. The defective tape as an original object becomes not merely a material medium for an electronic recording of a picture, but a contemporary relic, a mixture of the symbolic and the sensually material with a vague status of the original, impossible to reproduce even in the age of seemingly universal and infinite mechanical reproduction. Peter Style questions status of the copy, but original is defective. The act of performance taking place in TV studio is being registered, the moment of performance registered with television cameras, on tapes recorded dozen years before also torn fraction can be seen. Technology and tools in their autonomic relation in the presence of body / reality are subjected to the process of destruction set in moment of the embodiment of artist’s will or became aware because of his will.” Violetta Kutlubasis—Krajewska, 2008

Place and date of recording: WRO the Polish, television studio, Wrocław, May 1994