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consisted of noises of airplanes flying by; real airplanes were also flying over the field at low altitude)
and headed across the field for the metallic ring.
Having approached the ring, Panitkov and Monastyrski took the rope‘s end s and while walking in
opposite directions along the forest‘s edge, started pulling the rope through the ring. In the process of
pulling the rope through the holes the metal tags attached to the rope stroke against the ring‘s inner rim,
came off the rope and fell to the grond.
As soon as Monastyrski and Panitkov had disappeared in the woods (on the audience‘s left and right sides
respectively) having pulled the whole rope‘s length through the ring (when the rope stretched across the
ring‘s diameter, I.Makarevich cut it with scissors), each of them drew his part of the rope and arranged it
on the ground in the form of a coil.
When this part of the action came to an end, E.Elagina who had been residing among the audience turned
off the tape recorder and prompted the audience to cross the field and approach the location where the
ring was. Behing the ring, at two meters‘ distance from it there was S.Romashko with a video camera,
shooting through the ring the audience‘s movement from its initial position in the field‘s center to the
location where the ring was fixed with tags lying next to it. The viewers were prompted to collect the tags
(17 pieces) and keep them as the action‘s factography.
After the tags‘ having been collected, Elagina filled in each tag the time of the audience‘s approaching the
ring (15:20).
Some time later Panitkov and Monastyrski emerged from opposite sides of the forest‘s edge and
approached the audience, each holding his coil of rope.
Kievy gorky
11 st June 1989.
N.Panitkov, A.Monastyrski, S.Romashko, E.Elagina, I.Makarevich, G.Kizewalter, M.K.
V.Sorokin, I.Bakshtein, Yu.Leiderman, M.Chuikova, S.Volkov, Pertsy, E.Bobrinskaya, L.Shmitz,
J.Gambrel, E.Petrovskaya, E.Steiner, J.Janecek, A.Alchuk, M.Ryklin +6 persons/
58. THE TENT – 2 (To N.Alexeev)
The invited audience (11 persons) gathered by metro station Scherbakovskaya at 10 PM. Then the
action‘s organizers together with the audience headed for the scene of action. The viewers were prompted
to walk in trail while maintaining a certain distance between each other.
Walking in such a manner, the organizers and the audience reached Prospekt Mira, turned to Grafsky
lane, walked along the railway, crossed a bridge over station Moscow-3 and entered the Sokolniki park.
It was already rather dark when the group stopped in the beginning of a Sokolniki alley. There the
audience was prompted to rest for a while.
Before detaching themselves from the group of viewers the organizers asked I.Bakshtein to put on
binocular glasses and watch the alley‘s remote end. He was prompted to ask the audience to start moving
forward after seeing a red light flashing at a distance.
After detaching some meters from the audience, the organizers stretched a rope across the alley, attaching
it to two trees at two meters above the ground. To the rope‘s center a big signal lantern was attached, its
reflecting mirror facing the ground. Under the lantern a cardboard circle (75 cm in diameter) was put on
the ground, then with the help of nails it was enclosed with a low cardboard fence (4.5 cm high). Then a