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

Besides that, the graphic sheet with red full stops and hyphens (transferred from the album where
N.Panitkov was writing down these orthographic signs after Monastyrski and Romashko's voices) can be
considered an autonomous artwork.
Moscow
26 th of November, 1985
A.Monastyrski, I.Makarevich, S.Romashko, S.Letov, N.Panitkov, E.Elagina
Viewers:
I.Kabakov, V.Sorokin, I.Nakhova, Vs.Nekrasov, V.Mochalova, I.Bakshtein, Yu.Leiderman
42. TAXI
In Ostankino district (on the opposite side of Khovansky gates of VDNKh) across an alley at 20:00 the
participants of the performance stretched six fishing-lines, parallel to each other. Ends of these lines were
attached to trees at heights varying from 60 to 100 centimeters. Space between the lines varied from 10 to
15 meters.
As soon as the lines had been stretched, E.Elagina went to Korolyov street to catch a taxi, while other
participants highlighted the six lines with flashlights against a camera installed at one end of the alley, so
that six lines on the imprint formed the Hsu hexagram ("Necessity of waiting").
In five minutes the taxi appeared and while driving through the alley broke the fishing lines.
In the course of the action two soundtracks were recorded: the first one in the alley by a tree to which the
last line was attached (the black box of "The Music of concordance" object with working transistor inside
was standing beside the tree) and the second one in the taxi (recorded by E.Elagina).
Moscow
16 th of January, 1986
A.Monastyrski, E.Elagina, I.Makarevich, N.Panitkov, M.Eremina, V.Mironenko, J.Backstein,
Yu.Leiderman
43. DISCUSSION–2
The event took place at I.Makarevich‘s studio. The audience watched a slide show titled "Preparation"
(consisting of slide sequences "Taxi", slides made by I.Makarevich and A.Monastyrski on Zvezdny
boulevard, slides made by I.Makarevich and E.Elagina in Sukhanovo prior to the performance and several
other slides from other CA performances).
After the slide show demonstration the audience was prompted to give remarks (which were taperecorded).
The discussion of the slide show was backgrounded by muffed playback of a dialogue between
I.Bakshtein and A.Monastyrski recorded after the "Taxi" action in which "Taxi" and the structure of
forthcoming performance "Discussion–2" were talked over. The action ended with increasing volume of
I.B. and A.M.‘s dialogue until its content became audible.
The discussion was attended by I.Kabakov, V.Nekrasov, I.Chuikov, D.Prigov, I.Makarevich, I.Bakshtein,
A.Zhigalov, I.Nakhova, N.Abalakova, Yu.Leiderman (other participants abstained from discussion). The
soundtrack recorded during the discussion is almost inaudible due to technical reasons. Only the final part