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

All the radios are turned off.
V.D. stands up and rises the board above his head. At the same time the participant with camera makes
several photographs, and they both leave the box after destroying the remnants of second snow hill.
Radios are turned on again.
6. Three or four minutes later after two participants leave the box, radios are turned off for the second
time.
7. Panitkov, having spent all the time in darkness inside his hill (the first darkness), stands up and rises
the board.
8. After unsealing the hill, Panitkov is still surrounded by darkness (the second darkness of the cloth), as
the hill is covered with cloth.
9. After dragging off the cloth, Panitkov still finds himself in darkness (the third darkness of the cloth).
10. Further action is undertaken by Panitkov at his own discretion.
Descriptive text
The action‘s elaborated plan could not be realized as expected. Only Panitkov‘s hill was built; the black
cloth turned out to be too small and failed to produce any darkness when Panitkov had thrown it off
together with the board. The darkness of the outer box was penetrated through small holes in the paper.
Moscow region, Rizhskaya railway line, Snegiri station.
17 th February, 1980.
A.Monastyrski, N.Alexeev, E.Elagina, S.Romashko, I.Makarevich, I.Yavorsky.
14. FOR A. MONASTYRSKI
Eight participants of the action formed a line at a distance of 15 footsteps away from each other, facing
the viewer (A.Monastyrski). The scene laid in snowy field, verging on a forest at one side. A.Monastyrski
stood facing the fourth participant at a distance of 20 footsteps from him.
Before the very beginning of the action Monastyrski had been given a tape recorder and instructed to turn
on playback at command. Further instructions concerning actions of other participants and Monastyrski
were recorded on the tape.
The commands (see appendix) were given to each participant in sequence with an interval, thus the
movements of several participants occurred simultaneously while Monastyrski was observing
simultaneous movement of the whole group according to a plan unknown to him.
10 minutes after the beginning the first command for Monastyrski followed, requiring him to move from
―observation area‖ to pre-arranged position on primary line of other participants‘ initial location. Thus,
the preset timing (10 minutes) between the group‘s movements and Monastyrski‘s movement remained in
the course of the whole action and became apparent in the end, when all the participants disappeared in
the woods, and Monastyrski moved alone in the field, following commands on the tape (accordingly,
intervals between commands for lone Monastyrski were extended).
Walking across the field required demanded much physical effort, as depth of the snow measured up to
60 centimeters.
The participants‘ footprints in snow were supposed to copy the prearranged ―movement scheme‖, but
altered it due to natural causes.
The action lasted 30 minutes.