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

Moscow region, Savyolovskaya railway line, near village Kyevy Gorky.
1 st February, 1981
A.Monastyrski, G.Kizevalter, S.Romashko, N.Alexeev, I.Makarevich, E.Elagina.
I.Pivovarova, N.Kozlov, V.Skersis, L.Talochkin, O.Vasilyev, I.Kabakov, I.Chuikov, Yu.Albert, V.Nekrasov,
A.Zhigalov.
17. THE PLAYBACK
The action took place in N.Alexeev‘s apartment. The invited guests sat facing an empty gray wall with
two small cassette recorders standing on speakers next to it. For 10 minutes‘ time these recorders were
producing noises of kicks and knocks on the wall. Upon careful inspection one could notice two dents in
the wall behind the recorders, produced by hammering on it in the course of recording (it was made on
the day before the action). When two these soundtracks came to an end, the third stereophonic recorder
was switched on (it was standing next to the opposite wall, hidden from sight by a cloth). It was plugged
to speakers under the two smaller recorders. Its soundtrack consisted of noises produced by guests –
knocks on the door, clatter, talks (recorded 15 minutes before the action‘s start) – and the two smaller
recorders in the course of action (see appendix for detailed plan).
Moscow,
1 st March, 1981.
A.Monastyrski, S.Romashko, N.Panitkov, N.Alexeev, G.Kizevalter, I.Makarevich, E.Elagina.
V.Skersis, S.Mironenko, V.Mironenko, Yu.Albert, V.Zakharov, N.Zanegina, D.Prigov, V.Kara-murza,
N.Kozlov, I.Yurno, I.Pivovarova, P.Pepperstein.
18. OBSERVING THE WATERFALL
The invited guests gathered at a snowy field‘s verge. For the next 7 minutes N.Panitkov was running to
and from across the field at various speed and directions, stopping and falling from time to time. Finally
he stopped and stood in the middle of the field with his hat in hands for 3 minutes. Meanwhile the viewers
were given replicas of a 15 th century Chinese artist Fen Xi ―Looking at a waterfall‖. Later it became
apparent that Panitkov‘s footprints on the snow duplicated the picture‘s pattern.
Moscow region, Yaroslavskaya railway line, Tarasovka station.
12 th February, 1981.
N.Panitkov, A.Monastyrki, N.Alexeev, G.Kizevalter, S.Romashko, I.Makarevich, E.Elagina.
V. Nekrasov, N.Abalakova, S.Gundlakh, G.Berstein, A.Anikeev, Yu.Albert, A.Zhigalov, N.Kozlov, I.Yurno
+others.
19. THE ENCOUNTER
Two participants (N.Panitkov and A.Monastyrski), each individually, were informed on the day before
that an action had been scheduled for the 9 th of May (both were asked to keep that in secret). On the
designated day both were met in different places and time and guided to the scene: two concrete pipes