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The performance “Mnich” took place on 13.05.2009 on Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. It began level with the entrances to UW and ASP and ended at the Copernicus monument. It lasted about 30 minutes. Oskar Chmioła, in loose, light-coloured clothing, walked very slowly, upright, with his arms extended widely in front of him and slightly to the sides. In one hand he held a teaspoon with an egg at its end, and in the other a glass full of water. It was around 13:00, so pedestrian traffic was heavy. Accidental viewers, busy with everyday life, parted and continued on their way. Few comments, few prolonged observations. No one knocked the attributes or disturbed the contemplative journey. The performer walked in an uninterrupted rhythm, very slowly, focused on the action. After about 30 minutes he reached the Copernicus monument, where a relief depicting the Solar System is set into the pavement. The performance ended at Copernicus’s feet, “on the Sun”, when the artist placed the glass on the solar patch in bas-relief on the pavement and then put the egg into the glass.