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

In the daytime on a hill‘s slope a small hole was drilled with a hand-brace. Then a switched-on blue
electrical lantern was put in that hole. The hole and the lantern were assembled in such a manner that light
could be seen from an observation post located 80 meters away from the lantern. A white rope was used
as a guiding line tied to a balustrade pole. Its other end was held by one of the action‘s organizer who
pulled the rope to provide the necessary inclination angle for the hand-brace. After the setting-up the
lantern the hand-brace was screwed next to the hole, with guiding line tied to its handle.
When on the next morning the lantern was excavated, its luminescence still lasted and only ended by the
next night. By that time the lantern was already placed inside the pre-fabricated object. It was represented
by a transparent plastic box with the lantern inside, labeled with factographic paper and tied with the
guiding line to the hand-brace‘s handle. Besides that, the rope was spooled over two objects: the upper
part of a cycle pump (found prior to the action on a hill‘s slope) and a small rock from Rygen island.
Poggio Catino, Italy
1 st June, 1995.
A. Monastyrski, S. Haensgen, N. Panitkov
77. THE NEGATIVES
Two pre-fabricated pigeon figures (carved from plywood and dyed black; height – 1.2 meters; on one
pigeon‘s head and the other one‘s tail there were golden lines) were vertically fixed in a snow drift on a
snowy field‘s edge. The invited audience (10 persons) was prompted to take negative photographs of
these figures using black-and-white negative film distributed by the action‘s organizers. At the same time
a tape recorder held in a backpack by Panitkov was switched to playback. Its soundtrack consisted of
descriptions of KD actions (see volume 6, action ―The Opening‖).
Then I.Makarevich collected the viewers‘ and participants‘ cameras, joined S.Romashko who had already
picked up the pigeon figures, and they both headed to a forest across the field.
S.Romashko hung the figures on a branch in the forest (away from the audience‘s line of sight).
I.Makarevich photographed the hanging pigeons with the organizers‘ cameras. Then he used the viewers‘
cameras to take photographs of the snowy field with distant figures of the action‘s participants.
After the return of S.Romashko and I.Makarevich the viewers received their cameras (with an indication
that the film contained within was from now on in their possession) and factographic sheets with text
―NEGATIVES OF TWO BLACK PIGEONS WITH GOLDEN LINES‖, and also specified time and
location of the action.
A. Monastyrski, S. Romashko, I. Makarevich, E. Elagina, N. Alekseev, N. Panitkov, S. Haensgen.
A.Alchuk, E.Bobrinskaya, V.Zakharov, M.Konstantinova, Yu.Leiderman, Pertsy, M.Ryklin, V.Sorokin,
A.Filippov.
78, FOR M. RYKLIN (The Slogan–96)
After positioning themselves on a suspension bridge at railway bridge over Yauza four action‘s
organizers deployed a swing-like construction of ropes and a board to the shore and offered M.Ryklin to
sit on the board. After lifting the board the organizers started moving the ―swing‖ towards the river. Upon
reaching the middle of the river Ryrlin was lifted to suspension bridge. At the same time a white cloth
(3x4 meters when positioned vertically) was unfolded and draped from the bridge. On one of its sides