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

(Brazil – 2 pieces, Indo-China – 2 pieces, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Indonesia). As soon as the viewers were
photographed against the picture‘s background, the action ended for them.
However, before the very audience‘s arrival deep in the field opposite the picture (some 200 meters away
from it) V.Sokorin (unaware of the action‘s plot) and A.Monastyrski occupied two air-beds and remained
on them until the end of the action. Other viewers were unaware of their presence, as V.S. and A.M. were
invisible from the audience‘s position and only left the field after the audience‘s withdrawal.
During their incumbency (which lasted for two hours) V.Sorokin and A.Monastyrski recorded the
conversation.
Therefore, within the coordinates of the audience‘s 3 positions (1 – free observers, 2 – nine acting
viewers, 3 – V.Sorokin lying in the center of the field and invisible to the rest of the audience) supervision
by one of the viewers (M.Ryklin) was performed (on the level of an esthetical act). This supervision could
also be performed from the fourth viewer‘s position, after Barabanov, Zakharov and Anufriev‘s having
moved away to the field passing the recorder to Kabakov, not as part of an ―esthetical act‖ but on the
mere basis of presence of a group of people in the field.
24 th of October 1987
Moscow region, Savyolovskaya railway line, Kievgorodskoe field
A.Monastyrski, I.Makarevich, M.K, E.Elagina, G.Kizewalter, N.Panitkov, N.Kozlov
I.Kabakov, M.Ryklin, V.Sorokin, A.Alchuk, V.Zakharov, E.Barabanov, I.Bakstein, N.Kozlov, A.Anikeev,
N.Osipova, A.Filippov, S.Anufriev, M.Chuikova, +3 persons
49. FOR KD – 2
Along the Moscow circular road in Losiny Ostrov (Moose Island) district from the location where the last
map was had been buried during the action ―FOR KD‖ (see volume 4 of ―Going to the country‖) and to
Yaroslavskoye highway (distance – 1.5 kilometers) the action‘s participants stuck into the snow under
trees (immediately adjacent to them) 10 canes with graphical images of V.Mukhina‘s monument ―The
worker and the collective farm woman‖ glued onto each of them (picture facing inwards) (the original
monument is situated opposite the VDNKh on Prospekt Mira which is continued by Yaroslavskoe
highway).
The upper parts of the canes (the handle and the emblem under it) were covered with plastic bags. The
canes were installed under trees at a distance of 100 to 150 meters from each other and 10 to 40 meters
from the circular road‘s outer rim.
The action was performed with intent that with the coming of spring and melting of snow the canes would
fall.
(Of two canes discovered in the spring and a text similar to this one with a picture-emblem glued onto it
an object was assembled and exhibited by A.M. at the second exhibition of ―The avantgarde club‖ on
Avtozavodskaya. M.Chuikova participated in the search for the canes).
Moscow circular road
16 th of January, 1988
A.Monastyrski, N.Panitkov, I.Makarevich, M.Tupitsina, I.Nakhova.
50. TO V. NEKRASOV