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We came to the snowy Kyevgorodskoe field and prompted Leiderman to move across the field dragging
heavy plaster rosette on a belt and thus draw a line with this rosette pointing the zone on the field from
which the hangars in the north-western part of the field could not be visible (see Volume 5 of ―Going to
the country‖ – ―Preface‖ and ―Hangars in the north-west‖).
While doing the drawing, Leiderman held a closed cardboard box in the other hand. Each time the box
moved slightly, subtle dinging of tiny bells could be heard from it.
After marking the required area with the rosette trace on the snow (such possibility was provided by the
sloped form of the field) Leiderman approached us (closer to the field‘s center) and – against the
background of hangars – received from A.M. a big black notebook with an inscription on the front page:
―To Yu.Leiderman‖. Inside the notebook there were scaled-up images from the small notebook titled ―On
the roof‖ (from S.Haensgen‘s series ―The Videoteque‖) and also two sheets with photographs:
S.Haensgen on the pedestal of Mukhina‘s sculpture next to the Collective Farm Woman‘s heel plastered
with cards with Chinese hieroglyphs, and Yu.Leiderman‘s briefcase standing on the pedestal of another
Mukhina‘s sculpture titled ―For Peace‖ (it is located not far from ―The Worker and the Collective Farm
Woman‖ on Prospekt Mira). Besides that, inside the notebook there was a sheet of paper with fragment
of A.M.‘s letter to S.H. concerning tradition and continuity of Noma.
After S.H.‘s having questioned Leiderman in front of a camera, A.M asked Yu.L. to leave the scene (i.e.
to move outside the field), put the rosette on the snow, produced from a box a plastic doll with a musical
mechanism inside (Leiderman wasn‘t aware of what he was carrying in the box and what the above
described part of the action consisted of), put it on the rosette and read aloud to the video camera‘s
microphone (in the picture there was the doll standing on the rosette) the text of Hridayam Sutra.
Moscow region, Savyolovskaya railway line, Kiovogorskoe field
26.12.1991
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen
64. TO D. A. PRIGOV (The secret oak-grove)
The participant (Prigov) and the action‘s organizers (S.H. and A.M.) met at VDNKh metro station and
took a trolley bus to the Botanical garden‘s main gates. After approaching the eastern corner of the fence
surrounding an oak grove, A.M. with a folder in his hands containing sheets from Prigov‘s book ―The
catalogue of abominations‖ scaled up to size A2 detached himself from the group and while walking
along the northern side of the oak grove rolled the sheets and put them on tops of the fence‘s poles (each
100 meters approx.). This action was performed on the whole outer perimeter of the secret oak-grove‘s
fence and involved all 20 pages of the book.
After A.M‘s having put on the first roll on the fence‘s pole, Prigov and Haensgen followed behind him.
Prigov took the rolls off the poles, unfolded them and read the verses aloud in front of S.H.‘s video
camera,
When the last sheet of the compilation was taken off (near the eastern corner of the grove, where the
movement started), A.M. fixed the pages between two black cardboard sheets (the ―front page‖ side was
marked with an inscription ―To D.A.Prigov‖) and handed the such crafted big black notebook over to
Prigov.
Moscow, Central botanical garden
17.3.1992
S.Haensgen, A.Monastyrski.