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

A. Monastyrski, S. Romashko, N. Panitkov, E. Elagina, I. Makarevich, M. Miturich,
N. Alekseev.
80. PARTICIPANTS’ STORIES
Several tens of meters away from the action scene, on a snowy waste ground 18 of 23 total members of
the audience received pieces of cardboard (40x60 cm) with front sides covered with craft sheets (each
sheet had a number in the middle). As the group approached the scene (a lowly outstretched snowy hill),
one of the action‘s organizers marked numbers from 1 to 19 (his own cardboard piece was marked
number 9) with a fibre tip pen on craft sheets. Then the participants were prompted to form a line on the
hill according to their numbers, from left to right, facing the waste ground – in order to be photographed.
After that, following a verbal command, all the participants simultaneously turned their backs upon the
waste ground, removed craft sheets from their cardboard pieces (they were attached with paper clips),
folded them several times (keeping them) and discovered sheets of white paper (sized A2) attached to
cardboard pieces, with various black letters printed on them.
After fixing the cardboard pieces with letters on the snow before themselves (front side facing the waste
ground; the cardboard pieces stood upright by means of two strained ropes) the viewers descended from
the hill and read the inscription formed by the letters:
СРАКУЧВЫ САОНКИАСТЗ
This was a random combination of letters on the viewers‘ cardboard pieces (the presence of two separate
words was provided by piece #9 with a blank white sheet on it held by one of the organizers. He was also
standing among the audience, i.e. his cardboard piece was the only determinant in the random sequence of
other letters).
Then the audience was prompted to go deeper into the waste ground (approximately 150 meters away
from the hill) and approach another organizer of the action who had been waiting for them on a forest
path.
While the action‘s organizer whom the audience had approached was writing factographic information
onto the piled craft sheets (those which the viewers kept after detaching them from the cardboard pieces)
with a felt tip pen, two other organizers arranged the letters on the hill to form a large inscription
РАССКАЗЫ УЧАСТНИКОВ (Participants‘ stories) – it could be distinctly seen from the audience‘s
position.
Moscow, Losiny Ostrov
24.3.1997
A.Monastyrski, S.Romashko, E.Elagina, I.Makarevich, M.Sumnina, N.Panitkov, S.Haensgen.
S.Letov, A.Filippov, A.Petrelli, E.Bobrinskaya, N.Sheptulin, A.Tobashov, M.Chuikova, T.Antoshina,
E.Nesterova, I.Chatskin, A.Panov, M.Sidlin, V.Sofronov, V.Miturich-Khlebnikova, M.Perchikhina,
Yu.Leiderman, O.Sarkisyan, M.Konstantinova, S.Anufriev, Pertsy, N.Palazhchenko Yu.Ovchinnikova.
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