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

Following the verbal instruction, Kulik reached the center of the grove, listened to the end of the
soundtrack, set the tape recorder to record mode, photographed himself (using automatic release) in the
presumable center and left the Secret Oak-grove northwards.
Moscow, Central Botanical Garden
10 th of July, 1998
A. Monastyrski, N. Panitkov
85. SHVEDAGON TO THE PERFORMANCE «SCENE OF ACTION»
One of the performance organizers led 35 viewers to the eastern side of Kievogorskoe field. They walked
down the village road on a track which was previously the northern side of the field but which now lies
between newly built summer-houses (dachas).
When viewers approached the starting point, they received envelopes (A4 format) with paper sheets
inside (A3 format). The sheets were made from material used to prepare for the performance «Scene of
action» (1979). In this action K/D had engaged the possibility of using red cloth as an element to signal
to the viewers. (This element had not been used in the «Scene of action» performance)
At the same time on the opposite (western) side of the field organizers unfolded some red cloth (10x2, 30
m). In the centre of the piece of cloth was a slogan written in white letters: «Remarks on the performance
«Scene of action»» (the word «Remarks» was written in 654pt, «the performance «Scene of action»» was
written in 51pt). In the upper left hand corner of the cloth was written «+100 meters» in 101pt. It
described the depth of a now deforested area (on the western side), an area in which trees had been
chopped down in the 1990‘s.
Viewers were asked to move across the snowy field toward the red cloth. Because of the deep snow
crossing the field (a distance of 500-600m) took about 20 minutes. When everybody reached the cloth, it
was spread on the ground and viewers were offered to cut out pieces of the red fabric with a scissors (they
had previously been notified to bring scissors with them) this acted as an additional memento (they still
had the envelopes they had received at the start of the action).
After the viewers finished cutting and had left the site of the performance, organizers put a small
rectangular red shred of material (150x80cm) with white lettering on it stating «SHVEDAGON to the
performance «Scene of action» on the ground and left the field.
March 31 st 1999
Kievogorskoe field
A.Monastyrski, E.Elagina, N.Panitkov, I.Makarevich, S.Romashko, S.Hansgen, M.Konstantinova
86. TRANSCENDENCE
On the railway bridge over the Yauza River we glued eight black-and-white images of various fish
between the rails of one of four tracks of the Yaroslav line. The images were cut from paper (the fish
were around 80 cm in length). Images of either the Amitabha Buddha or the Stupamahashri Buddha
(taken from Lokesh Chandra‘s book ―The Esoteric Iconography of Japanese Mandalas‖, New Dehli:
1971) were placed into small ovals in the middle of each fish.
The fish were affixed in a row (in parallel to the tracks with their heads facing Moscow) on the concrete
pavement that occupies the spaces between the rails (instead of cross-sleepers) on the part of the bridge
that is located exactly over the river.
Moscow, Losinyj ostrov