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

54-61. Fragments of the object "Photo album" (b/w)
62. Caption frame.
63-66. "The Closed City" (color)
67-74. Fragments of the object "Object-frame": close-up photos of license plates of trucks, buses and cars
(b/w)
75. Caption frame.
76-79. "The Closed City" (color)
80-88. Fragments of the object "Transport. Esthetical Overlay" (b/w)
102. Caption frame.
103-106. "The Closed City" (color)
107-113. "Upturned Vase" and fragments of other objects‘ arrangement on the white cloth (b/w)
114. Monastyrski sitting behind the screen with headphones and a microphone in his hand (pictured
during the "Discussion" performance while repeating the audience‘s remarks).
With the appearance of the 114 th slide Monastyrski finished repeating the discussion which then
continued in normal verbal mode.
Note: if a second demonstration of the slide film "Fragments. The Closed City" occurs, it is to be
accompanied by playing back the "Discussion" soundtrack with addition of the final 115 th slide (the
advertisement slide in the "Barrel": tape recorder on purple cloth on snow). This slide must appear on the
screen as soon as the repetition of remarks on the soundtrack is finished.
Moscow
28 th of September, 1985
A.Monastyrski, G.Kizewalter, M.Eremina, I.Makarevich
I.Kabakov, S.Letov, L.Rubinstein, I.Bakstein, D.Prigov, V.Mochalova, V.Sorokin + 2 German embassy
employees
VOLUME FOUR
40. WINCH
To a revolving lever of a dug-in steel winch six fishing lines were attached. Other ends of these lines,
fanned out across a field (the lines themselves were lying on the ground) were attached on various heights
to trees on the opposite side of the field. The length of the lines varied from 400 to 700 meters. The
audience received pre-printed copies of score of the forthcoming event (see hereafter), and then
N.Panitkov began revolving the winch, reeling up the lines and recording the sound with a tape recorder.
The lines gradually tightened and broke one by one. The last line broke in an hour‘s time after the start of
revolving. The action began in regular autumn weather, which tended to be rapidly changing: soon it
began snowing heavily, then a strong wind arose and the snowfall grew heavier. By the middle of the
action the field was covered with thick fog, the sky darkened. By the end of the action it stopped snowing,
the fog cleared away and sun emerged from the clouds. The whole field was covered with snow. Thus, the
meteorological aspect of the action was corresponding with "Winch" score (interaction between the
powers of Ying-Yang, Heaven-Earth, darkness-light).
Score description: The score consisted of two black sheets of Chinese paper, tightened with polyethylene
to form a single-centerfold book. On the cover page there was a sticker with an English word
"Performance". On the left part of the centerfold there was a schematic image of the six unbroken lines
forming the Qian hexagram ("creativity"). On the right side the lines appeared already broken (Kun
hexagram, "performance").
In the course of the action the lines were broken in the following sequence of hexagrams: the fourth line
was broken first, and the Xiao Gu hexagram ("small exceeding") appeared; then the second line broke to