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listing the following demonstrative relations - categories of the C.A.: "Reeling. Standing. Lying in a pit.
A Group. A man – people in a distance. Sound. Listening to the listening". Viewers could scroll the
album.
In the room over the piano a black musical sheet of the "Jupiter" performance was hanging, and under the
coach there was a glass-sided framed screen in blue passé-par-tout belonging to "Barrel" performance.
These objects had a certain value in the visual structure of the action.
After the audience‘s having finished examining the "Categories of the C.A." objects, between the piano
and the white cloth a screen with black letters was fixed. The letters said: "C.A. CATEGORIES.
PERSPECTIVES OF THE VERBAL SPACE. Discussion. 1985‖. Further listening to the soundtrack was
accompanied by demonstration of several slide films from the "Russian world" and "Barrel"
performances, relating to the "TZI-TZI" soundtrack‘s content. When the "TZI-TZI" soundtrack came to
an end, the "Discussion" itself started after a five minutes‘ pause. Headlights were turned off, while the
lamp inside "Upturned Vase" was switched on. The first slide from "Fragments. The Closed City" series
appeared on the screen, and Kizewalter who was responsible for switching slides, read aloud a short
introductory text. Simultaneously, the same text was repeated through stereo speakers by Monastyrski
who was sitting behind the screen (and thus was invisible to the audience) and, while listening to the
audience‘s commentaries through headphones of the second Walkman (it was connected to another
Walkman set to recording mode which rested among other objects on the white cloth), repeated some of
them to the microphone connected to a speaker in the opposite corner of the room. He also participated in
the discussion from time to time.
The slide film titled "Fragments. The Closed City" accompanying the "Discussion" consisted of 114
slides, each remaining on the screen for 20 seconds.
1. Screen (slide with image of lettered screen on which the slides were demonstrated).
2-9. Fragments of "Dumbbells scheme" object (black and white images).
10. Headpiece "The Closed City" (b/w)
11-14. Colored slides of "The Closed City", including:
11 – a trolley bus base emblem (circles with "wings") against red background. Such insignias can be
seen on trolley buses‘ sides.
12 - Lower left part of a trolley bus driver‘s booth with headlights and fragments of yellow numbers
against red background.
13 – red board with a slogan: "RESOLUTIONS OF THE APRIL (1985) PLENARY SESSION OF
KPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE ARE THE MILITANT PROGRAMME FOR THE PARTY AND
THE WHOLE SOVIET NATION!"
(this slide is positioned vertically; all the other slides, except the ones with slogans and the last, 114 th
slide are horizontal. Besides that, slides with slogans were demonstrated in "blinking" (stroboscopic)
mode by means of time relay. Synchronously with the slogan on the screen, the "Upturned vase" was
also blinking).
14 – lower left side of a trolley bus‘s body with rear sidelights and fragments of numbers against red
background.
Each sequence of eight slides with "Categories of the C.A." objects was followed – after a short caption
frame – by four slides of "The Closed City" assembled in the same sequence as described above.
Although, only two slogans – the first and the last ones – were captured in full (text of the last slogan:
"WORKERS OF KRASNAYA PRESNYA! LET US IMPROVE THE PRODUCTIVITY AND
EFFICIENCY OF LABOUR AT EVERY WORK POSITION!"). Other six slogans were represented by
vertically positioned fragments of a giant horizontal banner mounted somewhere in Krasnaya Presnya
district: detached pieces of words, letters and syllables of which no sensible phrase could be assembled.
15-22. Fragments of the "Divagation" object (b/w)
23. Caption frame.
24-27. "The Closed City" (in color)
28-35. Fragments of the object "69" (b/w)
36. Caption frame.
37-40. "The Closed City" (color)
41-48. Fragments of the object ―Demonstrative Field‖ (b/w)
49. Caption frame.
50-53. "The Closed City" (color)