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

At I.Makarevich‘s workshop on a white wall 10 photocopied A2 sheets from the book ―Buddhist
symbolic‖ (Palitra, Leningrad, 1991) )were arranged in two rows.
I.Holin who came at an invitation was asked to recite the series of verses titled ―Holin‖ created in early
60s.
During the recital A.M. who was standing behind Holin‘s back was coloring the contours of symbols on
the photocopied sheets with a golden felt pen. He was also trying to synchronize the time of Holin‘s
reciting one verse with his coloring one symbol.
Then the papers were taken off the wall, packaged in two cardboard sheets to form a notebook labeled
―To I.Holin‖ and given to the author of the verses.
Moscow, 15.03.1993
S. Haensgen, A. Monastyrski, E. Elagina, I. Makarevich
68. TO STEFFEN ANDRAE
On the floor of a Catholic church of St.Anna (Munich) St.Andre and A.M. performed an unfinished
session of a Tibetan game ―Journey to Nirvana‖. St.Andre played with a bronze eagle figurine, while A.M
with a tiny colored model of a Greek church. The game‘s results (positions of the figures‘ movements)
were registered in a special notebook consisting of 4 stitched sheets of photocopied photographs of
A.M.‘s work ―Breathing and hearing‖. After the game the two game fields were folded to form an A3
notebook and given to St.Andre together with an inserted A4 notebook with registered positions of the
figures‘ movements.
Prior to the action onto the reverse side of one of the game fields a page with description of ―The
Opening‖ action was glued. Later it became the front page of Steffen‘s notebook, while onto the reverse
side of the front page there was glued a photograph of the same action picturing Panitkov in ―the area of
non-recognition‖ on the snowy Kievgorodskoe field.
Munich,
31.5.1993
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen
69. TO I. KABAKOV (Three notebooks)
Materials of KD and A.M. (photographs, texts, schemes) requested by Kabakov for his installation titled
―Noma‖ were arranged in three black A2 notebooks. Each sheet in all three notebooks consisted of four
typoscript pages, three of which belonged to the requested materials. Therefore, Kabakov was supposed
to un-arrange the notebooks and cut the desired texts, photographs and drawings from A2 sheets, then
disposing the ―unwanted‖ element from each sheet.
The notebooks were labeled with scaled-up copy of a line from I.Holin‘s verse (―To I.Kabakov‖,
published in the book titled ―Lianozovo‖ (Munich, 1992, S-Press) dedicated to Kabakov.
The notebooks were handed over to Kabakov by B.Groys.
Salzburg,
10.8.1993
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen