Andrzej Partum (1938-2002) was a Polish neo avant-garde poet, performer, creator of objects and installations, the author of manifests, critical and theoretical papers, and painter. Partum was a seminal figure of the Polish Neo-Avant-Garde, a "non-official" artistic movement in Poland in the 70s and 80s. Self-taught, he created musical compositions, concrete poetry, mail art, installations and performances, putting him in the Conceptualist tradition even as he disapproved of Conceptualism in his critical writings and manifestos. The closely censored artistic environment of Communist Poland in the 1960s led Partum to self-publish his poetry. He took inspiration from Futurist poetry, deconstructing grammar, spelling and the meaning of words, and focusing on the graphic layout of a poem in the concretist manner. In 1971 Partum opened the Biuro Poezji [Bureau of Poetry] in Warsaw (later changing the name to Pro/La), considered by some to be the first private art gallery in Poland, with the original name being an ironic reference to bureaucracy and the red tape of Communist countries. Located in the artist's attic studio, Bureau of Poetry presented a pristine collection of contemporary Polish, European and American art including artists such as Daniel Buren, Jozef Robakowsky, Andy Warhol, KweiKulik duo, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Ewa Partum among many others. The gallery also held exhibitions, performances and served as the center of Partum's mail art, of which he was one of the primary practitioners in Poland. 

For Acupuncture, Partum's renowned 1973 performance at the V Biennale of Spatial Forms at the Elbląg El Gallery, Partum punctured the screen with pins during the presentation of J. Robakowski’s flim.