“Cricotage” 1965
10 December 1965 – the first happening in Poland took place in the café of Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych (Friends of the Fine Arts Society) in Warsaw. It lasted one hour. Participants: H. Ptaszkowska, M. Stangret, Agnieszka Żółkiewska, Erna Rosenstein, T. Kantor, Edward Krasiński, Alfred Lenica, Zbigniew Gostomski, W. Borowski, Mariusz Tchorek.
“It was in a café that the cricotage took place. I included 14 life processes such as eating, shaving, coal carrying, sitting etc. In the course of the happening these activities were deprived of their practical function and each of them was ‘doomed’ to rely on its own development.”[Borowski, Wiesław. “Rozmowa z Tadeuszem Kantorem.”(Interview with Tadeusz Kantor), in: Borowski, Wiesław. Tadeusz Kantor. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1982, p. 85.]