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

65. THE HANDING OVER (to S. Anufriev)
Two days before the action S.Anufriev received a detailed plan of the location – river Yauza near Losiny
Ostrov (Moose Island) – with a marked spot and time of meeting with the action‘s organizers.
When Anufriev came to the appointed location, A.M. handed over to him a big black notebook (size A2,
unlabelled) containing paper sheets with scaled-up images of skiers from one of Anufriev‘s drawings of
1991. One of the skiers‘ figures was collaged in a scheme from M.Krointz‘s book ―Quarks, gluons and
grids‖ (Moscow, ―Mir‖, page 181) – a page with this scheme was included in the middle of the series.
The sequence with skiers ended with a scaled-up to A2 size plan of the location, where time and date of
the meeting were filled in: ―27.12.92. 13:05‖, with signatures of the three action‘s participants.
Moscow,
27.12.1992
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen
66. THE OPENING (to N. Panitkov)
After reaching a place ―where no hangars can be seen‖ in a field (see ―Means of a sequence‖ action),
A.M. and S.H. handed over to Panitkov a black notebook and a big plastic apple. After shouldering a
backpack with a tape recorder inside (the recorder was set to playing back pre-recorded by A.M
descriptional texts about ―KD‖, in that particular case the action ―Music inside and outside‖), Panitkov
headed towards the hangars on the opposite side of the field. Before proceeding to another section of his
route he tossed the apple, approached it, picked up, then tossed again and again, thus approaching the
location in front of the hangars where he was supposed to stop (anywhere according to his own will, but
as closer to the hangars as possible). After reaching the selected point he replaced the tape in his recorder
for a clear one and after setting the recorder to recording mode began looking through the notebook, at the
same commenting its content to the recorder‘s microphone. The notebook consisted of a cover page on
which Panitkov was to mark the title of the action described on the tape at the moment when he
approached the location – it turned to be the description of the ―The Gunshot‖ action. The cover page was
followed by several photocopied A2 sheets from Lokeli Chandra‘s book ―Esoteric iconography of
Japanese mandalas‖ (India, 1971). On the last page there was a factographic form to be filled in with the
action‘s timeline at different stages and signed by the participants.
Prior to looking through the notebook Panitkov was supposed to take the plastic apple to 3 pieces (as it
was made of sections) and to scatter them, but in the course of action he did so after looking through the
notebook.
After replacing again the tape with descriptional texts and switching the recorder to playback mode, he
put the recorder into backpack, shouldered the backpack, took the notebook and returned to his initial
position by the video camera. There the notebook was signed by all three participants, fastened at the
right side with clamps (so that it couldn‘t be opened without unfastening the clamps) and handed over to
Panitkov.
Kiovogorskoe field
7.3.1993
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen
67. TO I. HOLIN