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

Moscow, VDNKh
17 th of September, 1997
A. Monastyrski, S. Romashko
83. THE TUBE (Two radios)
The invited audience (25 persons) was brought to the edge of a snowy field. After detaching themselves
from the audience some 30 meters deeper into the field, two of the action‘s participants connected two
ventilation tubes (made of tin foil, 16 cm in diameter each), stretched them as long as possible (while
accordion-pleated, each was 1 meter long), resulting in a 6 meters long tube, which was then horizontally
fixed on the snow. Then both participants picked up small transistor radios, turned them on and kept
shuffling stations for some time. After stopping at certain frequencies (different for each radio), the
participants put the working radios into both sides of the tube, approximately 80 centimeters deep. Since
the foil blocked radio signals, the sound died out. Then the participants tied up the tube with wires in four
places – two constrictions in 30 centimeters from both ends, another two in one meter and a half.
Therefore, both radio sets became isolated inside two tied-up sections and divided from the middle part of
the tube, 3 meters long. Then N.Panitkov, using a bookbinder‘s knife, cut two holes in the sections with
the radios inside. After stripping the holes open sounds became audible again. By that time the audience
had already approached the tube and could see from a close distance the process of putting the radios
inside the tube, tying it up and cutting the holes, and also hear the resuming of sounds from the radios
lying inside the tube and by that moment visible through the cuts.
After the distribution of factual sheets among the audience everyone left the scene of action, leaving on
the field the tube with the sounding radios inside it.
Moscow, Izmailovsky park
13 th of March, 1998
N. Panitkov, A. Monastyrski, E. Elagina, N. Alexeev
Viewers
A.Petrelli, M.Tupitsyn, S.Letov, V.Volyak, N.Palazhchenko, Kh.Oroshakov, M.Chuikova, V.Sorokin,
M.Ryklin, A.Alchuk, Yu.Leiderman, P.Pepperstein, Yu.Semenov, E.Bobrinskaya (+ 6 or 8 persons, three
of them from the "Arte" TV channel crew)
84. THE CROSSING (For Oleg Kulik)
O. Kulik was prompted to cross the territory of the Secret Oak-grove of the Central Botanical Garden (the
size of the grove – approximately 350x200 meters), moving from south northwards along the center.
Before starting the crossing Kulik was given a tape recorder with a 15-minutes long soundtrack consisting
of author‘s reading (dated 1998) of a dialogue between Yu.Leiderman and A.Monastyrsky (dated 1991)
named "Yellow dogs in the Secret Oak-grove" from a MANA compilation titled "Rivers, lakes,
meadows".