А. Монастырский, Н. Панитков, И. Макаревич, Е. Елагина, С ...

folded and moved it back to the left again (there was another inscription on the curtain‘s inside prompting
to do so). Then he photographed the one lying in the pit, gave him the camera and proceeded to the two
remaining positions (14 and 15).
After being photographed at each of 15 positions and partaking in the Curtain action, the viewers in turns
proceeded to the forest. There, on a scoreboard attached to a tree, they found a schemed plan of viewers‘
filming, plan of additional filming, and also a sequence of slide films and setting of black-and-white
exposition to be compiled after the filming (see appendix 2 for full text). One of the action‘s participants
stood by the scoreboard with a recorder and taped viewers‘ words.
Moscow region, Savyolovskaya railway line, near village Kyevy Gorky.
7 th October, 1979
2. Slide film
The photographic material collected in course of filming was compiled into slide film (see appendix 3)
and a black-and-white exposition (see appendix 2, section 7). After the demonstration of the slide film
audio commentaries were auditioned (see appendix 4). Then additional sequence of slides and audio
commentaries collected on the 7 th of October followed.
Moscow.
31 st October, 1979
A.Monastyrski, I.Makarevich, N.Alexeev, N.Panitkov, E.Elagina.
I.Kabakov, I.Bakstein, V.Mironenko, D.Prigov, O.Vasilyev, E.Bulatov, V.Nekrasov, V.Mochalova,
I.Pivovarova, I.Yavorsky, I.Chuikov, S.Gundlakh, A.Anikeev, L.Rubinstein, S.Romashko M.Elagina,
L.Bazhanov, A.Filippov, K.Zvezdochetov, V.Makarevich, P.Pepperstein, N.Shibanova + 7-10 others.
13. FOR N. PANITKOV
(Three darkness)
Footnotes for descriptive text (plan of action)
1. Unaware of the action‘s plan, Panitkov and V.D. arrive at a snowy clearing in a forest in the daytime. A
small hole is dug in the snow and a chair is put inside. Panitkov sits on the chair, other participants cover
Panitkov with a board using wooden posts at the hole‘s corners and bury it under snow. A hill of snow is
formed, Panitkov is sitting under it in darkness.
Before the action‘s start other participants instruct Panitkov to stand up and rise the board above his head
when silence falls for the second time (in the course of the whole action there are six radios around, tuned
to different waves and working at full volume)
2. When the hill with Panitkov inside is ready, a similar one is built next to it. Inside the second hill V.D.
is sitting. (Panitkov is unaware of the second hill, as the noise produced in the course of construction is
dampened by radios).
Before the action starts, other participants instruct V.D. to stand up and rise the board above his head as
soon as silence falls for the first time.
3. When the hill with V.D. inside is built, Panitkov‘s hill is covered with black opaque cloth of size no
less than 4x4 meters.
4. A black box (sized 2.5 meters in height, 4 in width, and 5 in length) is built over the two hills, using
black opaque paper or cloth and ropes attached to trees.
5. When the black box is built, a participant steps in, holding a camera with flare.